Great colleagues, incompetent leadership
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Great colleagues who try to keep the system running, some really good people managers, amazing office in Hamburg
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Not only pretend to care for people and equality, but actually DO care for them.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Atmosphere used to be great, but leadership has brought it to an all-time low.
Employees feel demotivated, unappreciated, and disconnected from the company. They experience stress due to newly introduced measures of how to make them accountable and faster, and also due to poor communication, unclear expectations, and lack of support from management.
Kommunikation
Leadership is only superficially responsive to feedback and concerns from the employees. They pretend to care, but their responses are textbook and even ironic even though they respond to real questions and needs of employees. This resulted in confusion and frustration among the employees.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
There is a strong sense of teamwork and collaboration among colleagues.
Work-Life-Balance
Working hours are flexible and working remotely is widely possible. However, there is a lot of (time-)pressure for some tasks that impact my work-life-balance negatively.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
As everywhere else, there are good and bad managers at XING. Some of them really care about their directs while keeping product delivery in mind and fulfilling the goals, others are unclear about expectations and don't value the needs and concerns of their employees.
Gleichberechtigung
In the recent mass layoffs at XING, "social factors" were legally binding. However, it resulted in laying off married couples, female part-timers, colleagues with several young children,... When talking about hiring a new CTO, unconscious bias like "we are looking for a new guy, don't worry, he will be great". Don't forget that language creates reality.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
There are not a lot of older colleagues, but my experience was good so far.
Gehalt/Sozialleistungen
Average salary, but a very crazy salary process that doesn't really reward every individual. You have to hope that your people manager likes you so you will receive your share.
Benefits are really great though!
Image
The image of XING has gone down a lot in the last years which is also a reason for the recent mass layoffs. A great group of colleagues is working towards making it better again!
Karriere/Weiterbildung
There is an annual budget for every colleague, however, those are mainly on hold or reduced at the moment.