Zalando reviews

3.6

67% would recommend to a friend

(2,222 total reviews)
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Robert Gentz

69% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Zalando has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,222 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
3.0
Nov 28, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Can be a good environment for getting first work experience. Work life balance is OK, but this really depends on department. Salary for Berlin is pretty standard, but again depends on department and position.

Cons

Constant changes back and forth, not always for the better Lack of personal development Seemingly constant cutbacks to save money

4.0
Nov 16, 2014

Intern

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great work-life balance, casual atmosphere and freedom to express your ideas.

Cons

Flat hierarchy with unclear leadership roles.

3.0
Oct 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Start if you want to learn about performance marketing, you'll get the best-practice schooling here. Large-scale budgets will give you quick learnings. Need to learn fast. You will most probably learn a lot and it looks good on your CV. 40% discount (used to be at least, they've removed a lot of benefits like Friends&Family discount of 20%). Used to have big parties (Summer and Christmas, but they removed one to save money). Super great for knowledge and get ahead of the pack when applying for other jobs (because you will).

Cons

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!

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