Is Zalando a good company to work for?

Zalando has an overall rating of 3.6 out of 5, based on over 3,400 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months. 66% of employees would recommend working at Zalando to a friend and 53% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Zalando have been left by employees working as Senior Product Manager , Working Student and Werkstudent .

Does Zalando pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Zalando employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.3 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Zalando. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Zalando?

66% of Zalando employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Zalando 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Zalando?

Software Engineer (191) , Senior Software Engineer (109) , Customer Care Specialist (45) , Project Manager (45) , Product Manager (42) , Senior Product Manager (41) , Working Student (35) , Senior Manager (33) , Buyer (30) , Assistant Buyer (29) , Assistant Merchandise Planner (25) , Customer Service Representative (25) , Data Scientist (24) , Applied Scientist (23) , Team Lead (23)

What are the pros of working at Zalando according to real employee reviews?

"Colleagues are nice and mostly helpful." ((in 197 reviews)); "People are nice and friendly" ((in 160 reviews)); "Great culture and ambient; the relationship between teams is interesting; work peace is slow but steady." ((in 125 reviews)); "Great teams who are very passionate" ((in 116 reviews)); "Good benefits and infra facilities" ((in 83 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Zalando according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management and difficult to work across teams" ((in 76 reviews)); "Bad leadership" ((in 53 reviews)); "Low pay and they love to lowball people on salaries" ((in 43 reviews)); "I had a bad manager who laid me off without a justified reason." ((in 32 reviews)); "In some departments not good communication" ((in 26 reviews))

What are employees saying about Zalando layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Zalando layoffs and their outlook for job security at Zalando in 2026.

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3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(2,217 total reviews)

Robert Gentz

69% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

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 2,217 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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3.0

Nov 25, 2018

Mixed fillings

Senior software developer

Recommend

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Pros

Zalando is quite diverse. every team is own universe - Great and creative engineers - Tech freedom - 360 feedbacks - if it is done right . I see constant improvement of process

Cons

My experience is mixed from one side big and cool challenges from another side politics, unprofessional middle managment. It is the first place we I see that: - Head of the project or department ignore developer and share idea that this folks ern to much - Scream on people. create a culture of fights and self-protect. Total ignorant I was totally burned out after few projects (2 years) ~ After speedo a lot of techs has non-tech leaders that simply don't care - Zero level up or salary review after 2+ years even after project delivery from scratch in an unrealistic schedule. Another person gets promoted for a work that never did. - Visibility of your contribution - it is hard.

3.0

Aug 28, 2018

Nothing out of the ordinary in Berlin

Frontend engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

- 40% off on zalando.de - Very good at diversity - Very respectful and sensitive working environment - Lots of internationals (bad if you want to learn German) - Air conditioning in summer

Cons

- Hard to climb the career ladder unless you are well connected - Hard to negotiate salary raise - Huge pay gaps among team members doing the same job - Lack of recognition for a well-done job - It is such a huge company that at times it feels lonely, you end up hanging out mostly with your ~8 team mates and the rest of your colleagues are complete strangers. People tend to form very closed groups.

1.0

May 21, 2018

zLabels CEO has no clue

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Zalando is a good company, with a great culture and friendly staff

Cons

zLabels (Zalando Private Labels) has a crazy CEO who has been changing the strategy every 1-2 years. He does not understand the fashion business at all! He needs to invent new things constantly, to hide the big failures from the past and because he wants to impress Zalando Top Management. This is affecting us very negatively, even suffering from massive layoffs in 2018. Help!

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