Pros
It is after all a good name on the CV and definitely opened some doors. The work from home/abroad policy is also positive. Work life balance was ok because the job was not very challenging.
Cons
I worked a couple of years for the supply team within zalando lounge. Within the lounge and specially the supply team the work environment was definitely toxic. People are very demotivated and there is an overall negativity towards the employer and the work place in general. Unfortunately this is simply ignored by management. It is incredible to see how many talented, motivated, young people work there and are rapidly so disillusioned by the employer. I was unfortunately faced with mobbing at the workplace and quite frankly I have heard this quite often from colleagues. This conditions is however tolerated since employees are interchangeable in this company. In the supply team there was the general feeling that most employees were kept small within the team and company. On top of keeping people small within their team and department there is also not a real chance of developing and growing within the company. The being ‚kept small‘ is then justified with the feedback culture that is quite unique to Zalando. On top of all of the above, the pay is also very bad. Quite frankly I would not recommend working here. The company culture is not good and there is (realistically) not a good growth opportunity. Lastly, Management was unfortunately very incompetent and promoted even more incompetent people to cover up for their incompetency.