Unfortunately a normal Berlin startup culture - Anonymous employee Feather (Germany) Employee Review

The people who work at Feather are kind, smart, and create a fun work environment. There is a lot of flexibility to make suggestions, take on new, self-guided projects, and really build something from the ground up. The remote work policy is really great (you can travel and work from anywhere in Europe basically). The learning budget and home office benefit are really helpful.

Diversity is a big issue. The team is almost all men and they only seem to hire women into communications or customer service roles. Maybe fewer women apply for developer and data roles, but it's hard to believe they haven't found a single woman to fill an engineering position. Even some jobs that have more female applicants (e.g. design) seem to only be filled by men. At this point, the sea of male faces is probably scaring women off from applying. The company is bootstrapping, which is admirable. However, this also means that the salaries are nowhere close to industry standard, particularly for customer service/operations. This means it's hard to attract quality candidates across the board, and since it's mostly women being hired for those customer service/operations roles, this also perpetuates a cycle of gender-based salary inequity. There's also no HR to speak of, which means that hiring processes are always chaotic. Feather hires non-EU citizens but gives almost no support in arranging work permits or helping with relocation. It also puts people in the uncomfortable position of having to bring up any issue directly with one of the founders rather than going through HR.

- Some wonderful humans work here - Flexibility to a degree

- Certain people in leadership positions are inexperienced which leads to plenty of wasted time -Supported me during my pregnancy, but was treated in a cold and unwelcome manner by my manager after I went on maternity leave -Refused to provide a reason why they wished to end my permanent contract - Made a lot of promises regarding financial compensation before starting the role and during my time there that didn't materialise into anything