N26 reviews

- Your compensation, title, and performance review are based on everything BUT your performance. You need to demonstrate loyalty to the toxic management team in order to get recognition in this company. The best indicator of whether you're fit for a promotion is if you've worked with C-level at previous companies. - Management makes decisions based on gut feeling, confirmation bias, and totally skewed perceptions of reality. They ignore hard data and facts, and will actually punish you for bringing them forward. Because if you make decisions based on data, then you're obviously not loyal to them. - No real technical leadership. The best engineers problem solve based on analysis, and they have all been either pushed out or have quit because they have no way of making a real impact. The company is left with either people who will listen to anyone, or political players who just try to accumulate more power. - "Hypergrowth" killed the culture and productivity of the company (really, it's hard to find a team that has produced real value in the past year), but saved management. They replaced all the quality employees with brand new sheep whose roles are completely undefined and who will listen to anything they say.

N26 benefits from a very strong image outside the company and therefore became a very attractive company to work with as a partner or as an employee. Compared to the Start Up scene in Berlin, N26 presents way better salaries and perks. But that is: it. Management (C-level but more especially leads!) have no idea what they’re doing, but they deny anything that could prove them wrong. They are not here to help you grow or to encourage you in projects because: they don’t know what your job is, they don’t know your KPIs or OKRs, so they get afraid and will just say “no”. They don’t look for excuses, they just say no. Then, they victimise themselves. It’s not their fault if this or that happened. Because they’re leads and managers only in case of success. If you failed, it’s 150% your fault and they will deny any action they may have had. N26 is a bro company like we love them in Berlin. 25 years-old guys are Directors because they helped the company 3 years ago. (Guys, yes, it’s almost of course only males) they just come here after failing in a Rocket Internet company with the worse Management skills and come here to try out terror management for a very very high salary and very very low abilities. They’re just here for the fame because N26 is the new trend and while you’re doing your maximum to make the company successful, they are just here to take credit for you actions and make sure you will stay at the lowest level while they make their promote their friends to jobs they have no abilities for. Too long I didn’t read: don’t go there. You probably are worth better.