Fast growing company with a high employee turnover, burned out employees and a questionable workplace culture
Pros
- international environment - culturally diverse teams - young company - start up - flat hierarchy - fast growth and dynamic - free lunches - space for own development in one role
Cons
- high employee turnover in some departments - increased cases of employee burnout (because there is a lack of work life balance) - Gender bias - low agility (1 person drops out due to sickness or due to leaving, the remaining co-workers are alerted 2 -3 weeks too late to transfer the work) - bad conflict resolutions (internally) i.e. complaints to higher ups and management regarding hostile cooperation between two internal parties and about foul languages being used gets dismissed. Considered as ''cultural difference'', ''needing a tough skin in this business'', ''needing to forget about this complaint and to proceed a.s.a.p. with the task at hand together as the other party brought in a lot of money''. - low HR involment - lack of managerial skills (reaching the 'Peter Principle'); i.e. no clear guidance in development , do not maintain promises, reluctant to approve leave days until repeated reminders or discusissons, encourage overhours, discourage 'leaving on time (8h)', low trust, tolerant to or/and do not discourage cross-departmental disputes in open office environment etc. - internal culture and bad atmosphere (tolerant attitude towards yelling and hostility across departments) - minimal career development; no growth beyond your existing role. Possibility to add additional tasks or join a project group to your already existing tasks. - negative attitude towards remote work depending on departments; tendency to reduce or revoke rights to remote days in departments when it deems fit - Start up company with old-fashioned management approach - high tendency to ignore employees' feedback regarding work culture and in reviews