N26 reviews

Literally everything else. Employees aren't heard or respected, to N26 we are all easily replaceable. When asked about salary ranges, which are tied to levels but not shared with anyone, the company response was essentially 'this is what you get, if you don't like it too bad'. Zero transparency - it's almost November and there are no plans in place, or at least no plans communicated, about next year. All decisions are made top down and everyone is expected to just do as they're told. Plus all major decisions are made last minute, with entire teams and departments completely kept out of the loop. Everyone is constantly scrambling to keep up and fighting fires - it's a completely unsustainable way to keep working. Have you been working hard? Think you deserve a promotion? Too bad, your options are to jump through a thousand hoops or be friends with management (it also helps if you're male and Austrian). The promotion cycle is not at all equal across departments with some teams giving out promotions after 4 months and others denying everyone. We're trying to expand worldwide, but we can't even get our current product working properly for our core markets and competitors are very quickly surpassing us. This place will implode well before they reach their entirely unrealistic signup goals.

N26 comes with the classic startup speech and "benefits": opportunity for growth, open space, no hierarchy and plenty of snacks and drinks. Understand corrupted processes, nepotism, strongly rooted unspoken hierarchy and political games. Career growth is for the ones who are friends with the "good people", rewards for performance and achievements are widely ignored, and so will you be if you dare reaching out to your manager when company-wide raise round time comes (in September). You'd get 10 appointments for your anmeldung before having a chance to talk about your performance with your manager, simply because processes are a facade to shut employees up when real things only happen behind the curtain. Pace is way too fast and colleagues are exhausted, working way too hard because C-level expects us all to work 200% everyday. As the CEO puts it in a Q&A streamed throughout all offices "it is not a company for lazy people, we [the two founders] work very hard every week to achieve our goals and we think everyone at N26 should work just as hard", shameless when facing employees paid on average 30% below the market (30K for analysts, roughly 38K for some Team Lead positions). Everyone is jumping off the boat, as company is doomed by greedy, unconcerned and disconnected management.