From a cool company to a "I don't care" company in 2 years - Data Engineer Elinvar Employee Review

Dear Colleague, Thanks for your open words and constructive feedback, much respected. We share your genuine dedication for our company and the team, and it is our goal to be an employer where people can deliver to a shared vision, develop their skills and career, and have a good life on top. Not only because a happy and healthy team is a productive team, but also because we believe in respecting, empowering, and including our people. Please let us add some aspects to your comments. #1, since we started working mostly remote with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been a learning journey for all of us to develop from that happy, buzzing startup office feeling. To protect our people, we’ve switched to remote first for almost a year, then doubled our office space in Berlin, introduced a booking system for limited office utilisation; and introduced a new hybrid working model for ‘after Corona’. You probably agree that it is all going well, but still can be challenging sometimes to achieve the same level of alignment and togetherness. But we’re improving, thanks to everyone’s commitment. And true, the beer has vanished from our office fridges, as we thought this to be a considerate and mature move for a growing company with a diverse team. Teams still got their budgets for some afterwork fun and beers regularly, though. #2, we’ve won some very interesting customers lately. Delivering these projects will substantially push our platform and products, industry visibility, and ultimately our whole growth story. On our way to change Wealth Management for good! To keep everybody’s workload on a sane level, we've decided to rely not only on hiring, as we like to continue applying maximum care to finding the best matches for our team. Currently a small number of hand-selected contractors are supporting us (temporary projects, but long-standing relationships). Thanks again, and take care, Ulrike