Zalando reviews

Absolute lack of corporate culture, taking care of and value employees. High school environment, teenage behavior, low salaries, horrible Senior Mgmt, won't promote you even if you reach or exceeded all goals that were decided at annual review. Senior Mgmt safeguard their own position instead of encourage you by giving you a promotion. Some interns and employees got fired when home ill (for only a day), returned to the office and they had no job. Some got the notice of getting fired by the security guards at the entrance, when suddenly their key card didn't work on their last day of the 6-month trial period (without ever getting a notice from Mgmt beforehand). Bad introduction for new hires. Matrix organization that is extremely problematic. Too many in middle-mgmt, but they've scaled down on that now. Too much micro-mgmt. It varies a lot between the departments, some Heads are truly horrific and treat the employees insanely bad (crazy this haven't been on TV yet), others are real good but can't to much in the stiff organization. Grew too big too fast with CEO/CMO/COO etc. that are 28-30 years old who doesn't know about people management, they're entrepreneurs!

If you like technology, Zalando is NOT your place. Zalando is focusing on engineer-bureaucrats and mediocre engineers. You will spend 90% of your time going through spam emails, trying to make any sense in the communication and structure chaos. Any tech decision is made from top to bottom, leaving most of the engineers no room for freedom whatsoever. Legacy, legacy and oh, more legacy code that nobody knows about.