28% positive business outlook
Pros
You are going to work with great people! There is always a challenge: working there has an interest to it!
Cons
Sometime there are layoffs. Compenstaion could be better
Pros
lots of fun events, nice working areas, very centralised. Nice collegues
Cons
To many changes in C-Level as it is scaling from its previous stage of startup, causing continuous layoffs.
Pros
Nice and modern office. There are many lunch options nearby the office. During the summer, there are air conditioners in the entire office. There are various interesting engineering problems in the company. But it might be challenging to find the motivation to tackle them if you work in a toxic environment (like the one at Grover). €1000 annual education budget is relatively high for companies in Berlin
Cons
Very incompetent HR, the worst I’ve ever met in my career. Beware that they will frequently wrongly calculate your salary and when you confront them, the HR director will tell you “wrong payroll calculation is normal and minor, it happens all the time, and people make mistakes. You’re just fortunate if such mistake never happened in your past companies”. Imagine from time to time, losing 10 - 20 % of your monthly income due to the HR miscalculation, and this is treated as a “minor and normal” mistake. Please digest this situation and the answer from (!)an HR director(!), and make your own conclusion. Having read the messages in the company-wide Slack channel, the CEO does not seem to like if the employees work remotely from home. So, he enacted a policy for the employees to come to the office at least 3x a week and all employees should arrive at the office before 9.30 AM. To date, this mandatory office attendance policy is still applied. Currently, employee morale seems to be low which leads to a mass resignation. Good and experienced employees leave the company nearly every month. Less number of vacation days compared to other companies. Lower salary than the market. Unclear promotion policy. To me, it seems people who are good at talking and playing politics within the company, who get promoted. Silent layoffs. You found your colleagues got fired through their deactivated Slack account. No culture within the company since people who were in the culture team, were fired or left the company. Seeing the CFO and Head of HR left the company almost at the same time, should give enough hints to leave this company. Furthermore, the person who replaced the Head of HR also immediately left the company, not long after being appointed in the position. On the other hand, the former CFO had a big influence in the company, and often appeared in media publication, side by side with the CEO. He acted as a sort of co-founder in the company. Seeing him decided to leave the company which presumably, he had a big stake in, may signal something bad is happening internally.
Pros
The most interesting feature was to work 100% remote
Cons
Frequent organizational changes led to information gaps and lack of continuity. Following multiple rounds of layoffs, workloads increased significantly, requiring teams to absorb additional responsibilities. At times, there was limited visibility and support from management during these transitions.
Pros
Good teammates; Happy to help; Contribution between other team;
Cons
Bad management; No career development; Bad project definition; Constant Layoffs
Pros
Great international team to work with
Cons
Unreasonable profit and growth expectations from investors leading to layoffs
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