Disappointing company to work for, won't be around for long. - Buyer Zalando Employee Review

1.0
Oct 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible working Child friendly, dog friendly

Cons

Although diversity is celebrated on social media, this is not the case internally. There are less opportunities for different ethnicitys. If you're German you will do fine and move through the business quickly. Blonde is also a benefit, one category of buyers is headed up by only blond white women. The VP on my team refuses to speak to people who cannot speak German, unless you dress well and go on smoking breaks, then she'll respect you. Huge staff turnover across the business, specifically at the lead level. The responsibility of VPs does not match their experience, as Zalando are more likley to hire 'yes' people than people who are strong in their roles. This helps them to set unrealistic targets. Hence the strategy for 2023 is unachieveable and will cause a huge loss of the portfolio next year. Such a wasteful business for the environment and for standalone businesses.

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Zalando Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. I am sorry to read about it and I hope we are working towards changing this experience. Announced this week, we have created targets for hiring at least 40% women in the 6 most senior roles including the management board and supervisory board. And we have ambitions in the near future to create targets on other dimensions of diversity besides gender. But more importantly, we are working on creating initiatives to increase opportunity, inclusion and a sense of belonging for everyone, especially supporting people of color, folks from outside of Germany, the LGBTQI+ community, women, nonbinary and trans individuals and parents. Two things we are doing specifically: we are developing an Employee Resource Group program to support employee groups to be visible and have impact and we are setting up a training program to help all Zalandos, but especially leaders, to have a strong grasp of D&I concepts and awareness. I would invite you to talk with us further, please reach out to myself (Sarah Cordivano, Senior Diversity & Inclusion Officer) and Zalando's Diversity team at diversity@zalando.de

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