Zalando

Has the downsides of startups and big corporates, but none of their advantages - Software Engineer Zalando Employee Review

1.0

14 May 2020

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Nice colleagues, like everywhere else

Cons

The company has the chaos and lack of the structure typical of startups, but at the same time all the bureaucracy of a corporate. Software engineers spend most of our time trying to fish information, and doing sooooo much manual and operational work, but very little in engineering or programming. At the same time, it doesn't provide the learning and growing opportunities of a startup (all the promotions were done a few years ago and now none gets promoted), neither the stability of a corporate (teams are reshuffled every few months and whole departments downsized).

Zalando Response

Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. We are sorry to read about your experience in this role. This is not the type of work experience we strive to create at Zalando and we are grateful you took the time to share it with us so we can work on improving. We'd specifically like to address your concerns regarding the working culture and development opportunities. We care very deeply about providing growing opportunities for our employees and have invested in creating a Learning & Development platform available for all employees to enrol in and help us further refine our operations models to align with Our Finding Mindset. If you wish to provide further feedback or have ideas on how we could help improve our working environment, please feel free to reach out to me Yasar Ahmad - TA.External@Zalando.de

Has the downsides of startups and big corporates, but none of their advantages - Software Engineer Zalando Employee Review

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