Not a good place for ambitious people - Software Engineer Zalando Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. It is important for us to hear what we do well and what we need to improve upon to drive change at Zalando. We’d like to specifically address your concerns regarding our performance management system, rewards and flexible work options. Offering career growth and development opportunities is something we take very seriously at Zalando. With our regular talent reviews, our leadership team is looking into our talent base to identify promotion ready colleagues and agree on concrete talent measures to foster growth and development. Continuous development talks should enable talents to openly discuss their career aspirations, development goals and opportunities with their lead to create a suitable development plan to help achieve their professional goals. We are also committed to keep investing in leads enablement to ensure meaningful development talks take place across our organization and reward outstanding performance financially with performance bonus. Our total compensation aims to be competitive with the market, fair internally and reflect personal development. In order to ensure our compensation is competitive compared to the market across these job families, we have tailored salary bands to fit the needs of each. We regularly review our salary bands by benchmarking against comparable companies and business sectors in order to offer competitive compensation to our talents, and we believe our salary bands are fair. We are committed to keeping our promise to employees and pay everyone in line with their role fulfilment as evaluated through our annual talent reviews. When it comes to your concern about being flexible, we are trying to enable work flexibility as much as possible but keeping in mind that Zalando has many work environments which require different work time models. For most of our teams mobile working is possible according to relevance and the requirements of a talent’s tasks and is usually up to 4 working days per month. Since you’re a current member of our Zalando family, I would like to encourage you to get in touch to discuss your concerns in person so I can identify how to support and drive change. Please feel free to get in touch with me directly: Sonja Sinterhauf - sonja.sinterhauf@zalando.de