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      3.6

      66% would recommend to a friend

      (2,216 total reviews)
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      Robert Gentz

      69% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.8

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Compensation and benefits

      3.1

      Senior management

      Zalando has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,216 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zalando employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      2K reviews
      2.0
      May 28, 2020

      I am a worse engineer than when I joined

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good office location in a well communicated point in Warschauer strasse

      Cons

      I learn so few tech things here, that I actually am forgetting things that I knew much faster. I am sure that if I had to take the same interviews that I took when I joined, I wouldn't pass them. The reason is simply that the company is technologically obsolete, nobody is allowed to tried anything new and programmers spend all their time with non-tech things.

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      Zalando Response
      5y
      Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. We believe that all talents should have the opportunity to learn and grow and we are sorry to hear that this has not been the case for you in this role. Our regular development talks should enable talents to openly discuss their career aspirations, development goals and opportunities with their lead to create a suitable development plan. We are also committed to investing in leads enablement to ensure meaningful development talks take place across our organization. In case you'd like to have a further discussion and provide us with more feedback, please feel free to reach out to me Sonja Sinterhauf - sonja.sinterhauf@zalando.de
      1.0
      Nov 12, 2021

      Dead end in legacy-land

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      They used to offer some sport activities

      Cons

      Oceans of legacy code, and toxic atmosphere due to lack of growth opportunities. Legacy, legacy and LEEEEGAAAACYYYYY. In the three teams where I have worked so far, 90% of the job we do is dealing with legacy code and maintaining old application with a huge operational overhead. There are very few new projects, and nowadays those are done by external developers. Zalando rents engineers from Thoughtworks, gives the new projects to this developers with a very tight time deadline (so not good quality job is done), and then these guys leave. Then the internal employees maintain these applications. When the evaluation comes, they tell you that your work wasn't "impactful", and when afterwards you ask to work on new projects that are more impactful, you get the same old maintenance of legacy "because it needs to be done". So many people focus on competing to show off whatever they do, always thinking about the next evaluation.

      1.0
      Mar 6, 2020

      Not a good place for ambitious people

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - 40% off perk off on clothing (non-partner items) - diverse work environment - humble colleagues - central teams work on some of really cool projects: developer productivity, GraphQL based fashion store API, rendering engine etc

      Cons

      - painfully slow career growth - salaries are below market value - every year the "in-house" performance review tool "Zonar" does some weird changes. How am I supposed to calibrate myself if you're not keeping it consistent - throughout the year company looks like in a dozing mode, and only seem to work excitingly for Black Friday week - no one cares to actively participate in internal tech communities - less flexible work culture - engineering teams hardly ever pushes back the product team. no one cares to ask about the business impact before jumping onto the implementation - inter teams collaboration is bad - no performance bonus - no stock options (no, handing out 150 euros worth of stocks to all employees does not count) - upper level management is not diverse enough

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      Zalando Response
      5y
      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
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