Unfriendly Environment - Engineer Elinvar Employee Review

- Management is incompetent and unable to cope with the challenges of FinTech - Management is not willing to understand the technical challenges of their teams and will often give unrealistic deadlines without possibility of retracting them - Micromanagement - Management encourages aggressive behaviours for making your career - Some technical people are under-qualified for their role, arrogant and unfriendly. Some of these are given higher responsibilities than they can handle, resulting in confusion, awful project planning and huge work load on the teams - For some reason, company seems to hire mostly the aforementioned type of people. Recruiting is not good in my opinion - Communication is very bad and you have to struggle to be heard and communicate your ideas - The culture that the company wants to promote (not letting anyone down, open to new ideas) is a big lie as most of the employees are usually very mean and ready to humiliate and shout at you in front of everyone for the sake of their own 'credibility'. There is A LOT of bullying and a lot of hypocrisy on presenting respect their core values - Great responsibilities for an average pay - You are asked to work overtime almost all days without obviously any bonus payment - Product managers and team leads pretend to have higher knowledge than they have when they are completely oblivious of the product - People are laid off without clear explanations, especially members who have been there for long - It seems that the company prefers employing and laying off all the time instead of investing on the talented ones - Awful HR: much closer to higher management than the rest of the 90% of the employees. Very unfriendly - CEO and CTO aren't going to provide you any feedback or listen to employees - With the excuse of being a 'growing start-up' you will be deprived of work-life balance from day 1 - Your social skills will be more important than your competence to grow - As in many Berlin startups, what they mean with 'diversity' is just non-german but still white European people - No real benefits unless some free food (before lockdown was there) which is not a real benefit