Pros
- Some nice people - Good way to start your network in a new city - Nice new offices
Cons
- "Employer branding" department writes fake positive reviews on Glassdoor - No clear vision for the future - Mediocre leadership that is scared of high performers - Lack of attention to detail both on the design and engineering side - Groupthink - Low pay and they love to lowball people on salaries - No bonus structure or equity - No loyalty: they will fire people 6 months after they moved across the world for this job, leaving them stranded in a foreign country with no job Zalando tries to mimic the surface-level behaviors of Silicon Valley tech companies, like having daylong job interviews, nice looking offices, and the basic hierarchical structures. But the people working here are no Silicon Valley leaders: They don’t try hard to push the limits of what’s possible, they don’t spend their money in the right places and they don’t value innovation and dissent. The so-called “team leads” at Zalando would not be team leads in Silicon Valley. They also don't try to mimic some of the better perks of Silicon Valley companies like unlimited PTO, free food, stock options and transportation. This is a standard closed-minded German company trying to imitate what they think Silicon Valley culture is, from the few blog posts they've read about what it's like. This is a second-league sports team pretending to be in the champions league.