Growth and changes - Data Scientist Zalando Employee Review

4.0
May 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I can give my review on the tech department. Huge tallent collection, possibility to pick up the tech stack one likes. Great people on board, tech infrastructure teams are helping. Challenging projects and constant strive for improvement. Interesting enough is a shared leadership model, where there is a dedicated lead to take care about you career. Vp seems to give enough push for innovation. Stock shares as perks for employees. Good vacation policy, 27 days and each year one spends in the company gives another +1 day. There is a way to take sabbatical leave. Huge nice infrastructure in tech buildings, ping pong, cosy chairs, some game stations and for young parents there is a day care. The team is relatively young,many young families. One can find a perfect life work ballance. No push to work extra hours, office time us quite liberal. Hack week event every year ( very fancy and fun). Team change is not a problem. If one wants to try out himself in a slightly different field, one can figure out it quite easily. Huge intercultural team!!! Extensive training programme for hard skills.

Cons

Company is still on it's way to find the right balance of processess and in transition from a start up to a corporation. This means too many changes: in your working space, in management, in product, in strategies. Understaffed first line management. Team autonomy and mastery pillars quite often hijacked or given without explanations. Many activities from the top management do not reach the actual teams. Poor support for sys ops topics, especially for Unix systems. Poor project management enterprise solutions. Changes are coming so fast one after another that there is no way to actually implement one change properly. Communication has improved a lot for the last year and it is still far from being optimal. Quite little number of female developers ( tech management). Poor soft skills trainings ( fast and dirty solutions). Very understaffed HR.

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