Overall a good place to work but suffering with "big" company issues - Anonymous employee Greentube Employee Review

3.0
Dec 12, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Everyone is very friendly and welcoming - Still a couple of smart colleagues (but unfortunately a lot of them left and seems more are going to) - Food/Cantine inside the office - Several events/team building - Regular meetings with the company board members - Flexible and there's a possibility to work from home (although not 100%) - Budget to improve yourself (courses, conferences books and so on) - Several learning sites like Pluralsigh are avaiable - First place where I think HR is doing a good job - Fair salary and anual reviews where things can be improved - Posibility to choose between using a mac or windows Dispite of many cons, I still would recommend it to a friend IF something is at least being done to start fixing the issues. There's a lot of interesting and challenging things that can be done.

Cons

Unfortunately, nothing is perfect and since I guess the company grew fast, it is suffering from some of the things I experienced in many other big companies and I can see a pattern. Here's are a few highlights: - A lot of managers: There are seriously too many managers there. - What's worse with these people: I feel that several (not all!) of the "key" managers/architects don't have the technical knowledge necessary for them to be in that position. Maybe they were the top when the company was small but, they somehow didn't keep up with things. You can feel this immediately when you propose something new that they are very conservative and don't take it too well when someone new wants to change things. - Departments are like mini rivals. I never worked in a place where the goal of each department is closing their tickets, without considering the big picture. - Too much core knowledge being hold by a very few individuals: There's a few individuals that are the "key" employees. they know everything and boy if they decide to leave the company, I don't know what's going to be. - A few very imcompetent people still around. You always have to go after and fix their mess. I know it's hard letting people go but seriously, pay attention. It's a salary that you could spend with someone that it is motivated to do good work.

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Greentube Response
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First of all thank you very much for the detailed feedback and your time! We have experienced a fast growth within the last years which leads to new challenges: Leadership: We are proactively working on developing our leaders and supporting them in becoming not only experts in their professional field, but also great people managers by offering programs and external training. Becoming a good leader takes time but we are convinced that investing money and time will lead to successful people managers in the future. Cooperation between departments: Communication is the key to successful cooperation -within and across teams. Our structures have changed rapidly over the last years and we are working hard on our internal communication to provide new formats and tools to facilitate team- and department overlapping cooperation. Knowledge Management: We have implemented our Knowledge Base last year and are currently working on our Greentube Academy to ensure that knowledge gets shared across our company. We totally agree that it is from utmost importance to know our employees - the motivated ones who want to improve things, but also the ones, who are not that motivated. We ensure this by our employee appraisals, which are mandatory. Overall we try hard to keep the motivation high and the expertise up to date. We know that we are in the middle of the process and your feedback encourages us to continue on this path. Thank you again for your time and all the best for your future career! Your HR-Team

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