Pros
- Great health/insurance package, perks, monthly 75€ allowances and sabbatical leave after 4 years.
- Office snacks, nice and comfortable office spaces.
- Some teams are extremely skilled, doing their best job to help the company grow.
- Company used to hire people with little to no experience, giving fresh graduates good head start at working in tech/startup sector.
Cons
- Serious business decisions affecting employees’ well-being, life and workload are being made without any consultation, discussion or any input from/of those employees. I remember many times starting my workday unable to eat my breakfast and was so busy that I couldn’t eat my lunch.
- Opaque decision-making, nepotism, favouritism exist at the top level of the management and make it difficult to understand and predict how you are going to work in the next 6 months.
- People who don’t have relevant background suddenly comes into the important positions abroad and starts cutting costs, changing procedures willy-nilly, putting whole company culture, employee productivity and business at risk.
- Toxic positivity throughout the company is pervasive, there is a cult-like environment and some teams have psychology of 14 year olds or showing similar behaviours to gangs/tribes. There is a serious need of company-wide cultural trainings, trainings about passive-agressiveness, professionalism and inclusion.
- Company itself does not encourage its core values, even constructive criticism is discouraged, or at best ignored.
- There is no positive correlation between work experience and salary, pay is low compared to industry average in general. Specifically, engineering teams are frustrated given how much workload they have got, therefore expect many glitches, problems and issues when you start working.
- Poor career opportunities, it is not the skills that will make you to be promoted but how good you are at corporate BS.
