I don't recommend the German office to anyone and here is why.
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BENEFITS
Germans get partial refunds for the internet and work equipment.
REMOTE WORK
Uptempo is fully remote. There is an office in Karlsruhe, but no one has to work from there.
PEOPLE
Most people in the German office are friendly and supportive and you can have a nice chat with them.
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I'll give a bit of background first: Uptempo (prev. BrandMaker) was initially a German company which was acquired by an American investor and was merged last year with two North American Companies Hive9 and Allocadia.
MANAGEMENT
Disorganized. Not efficient. Mostly men with huge egos. German and North American managers rather play political games and compete with each other than work on the common strategy and execution.
LAYOFFS
Company joined the trend and laid off employees in September 2022. The explanation for the layoff was that after the merge company was not able to restructure the work processes fast enough, could therefore not work efficiently for many months and did some other organizational mistakes.
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
People managers are mostly very unexperienced. HR is not involved in the people development.
PERSONAL GROWTH
Most probably you won't grow in the German office. More and more functions and important tasks are moved to North America. Upper management also clearly stated that the company is too small to give people a space to grow.
As the company doesn't focus on the employees' growth, there are not many learning opportunities or colleagues you can learn from.