Pros
- Can be a decent job for entry level employees that are OK with doing assembly line work in the manufacturing plant (since it pays more than minimum wage) - Offers a solid amount of PTO (since they are based in Germany & time off is a bigger deal in Europe) - Health benefits are good (though they are not fully covered & the employees have to pay a large share) - To save money, they'll regularly close the building for a few days surrounding holidays on short notice and make employees use their PTO to cover it. It's petty and cheap and when I tell people outside the company about it they think the place is a joke. - There is absolutely nothing done for unpaid overtime. You have tons of employees that work tons of night/weekend hours and they just have to do it for free - in many cases those employees were told when they were hired/it's in their contracts that they don't need to work outside of business hours but are then forced to for free anyway. - It's a successful company so you don't have to worry about losing your job because they went bankrupt or anything
Cons
- Even though it's an extremely successful company, they do NOTHING to share that success with their employees. Not only do the employees almost never even get yearly performance reviews, but you inexplicably don't get a raise with that review on the rare years it does happen (even if you get perfect ratings) - The only raises that happen extremely rarely are just cost of living increases for ~2% that management calls 'merit increases' even though they are given to the entire company and aren't even enough to cover inflation (especially this year) - No one (not even the sales dept.) get any kind of performance bonus or profit sharing bonus. No Christmas bonuses either - usually just an extremely insulting 'gift' like paper advent calendars with chocolate that's been stale for months in them - There is tons of turnover for these reasons, and instead of doing what they have to in order to keep the best/smartest employees they just let them leave - Management is so cheap that there are multiple departments where they have one employee doing a 3-4 person job. That employee (just like the others) never gets raises or rewarded in any way - At minimum half of the departments are managed by incompetent buffoons who's only goal is to avoid doing as much work as possible - There are almost no opportunities for employees to be promoted, because in many case they're too cheap to even have a manager position for some departments, and for the ones they do have managers for, they almost always hire externals instead of promoting from within - In spite of being a poorly managed company that overworks & underpays their employees to the extreme, they love putting out the message that "we're a family!" to everyone lol - every single employee just laughs to each other about what a joke this place is