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      Zalando

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      Zalando reviews

      3.6

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (2,227 total reviews)
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      Robert Gentz

      67% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

      Ratings by demographic groups

      Zalando has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,227 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Zalando employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      2K reviews
      5.0
      Aug 10, 2024

      Great place to work with good work-life balance

      Engineering leader
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great work-life balance; colleagues are very nice people; colleagues are also smart and enjoyable to work with; work involves large-scale data, AI and software.

      Cons

      Ownership is often fragmented across multiple departments and even business units, making decision-making longer and less effective than it could be.

      5.0
      Aug 7, 2024

      Great engineering community, management is evolving

      Principal data engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Very software and data-driven company. - Great technical challenges for any type of engineers. - Well defined tech lifecycle management process with enough restrictions and permissions to drive the big changes. - Relatively low bureaucracy, sometimes too low. - Inclusive engineering community that will support you with your ideas, provide challenge and expertise. - Great SRE practices and continuous operational efficiency improvement. - If you are a leader - you will have enough opportunities to show yourself. Main point - you can really influence the delivery of great things and change the way the company works. It is still possible thanks to Zalando internal culture and non-overburdened processes.

      Cons

      - Engineering teams have not aligned in terms of grades. For example, some teams might have very strong Senior Engineers with matured ownership and cautious decision making and in the others you might find a Senior Engineer who acts like a toddler. Salary is same though. - Mechanism to really make the level of your contributions transparent is still in the "emerging" state. You can set "Focus areas", commit and achieve the goals, but grading your contributions is non transparent at the moment. Thus, career perspectives are not always clear. - Somewhat great strategical visions not always backed up by a particular responsible executive person. Waiting until data strategy will implement itself is not very efficient tactics to achieve the goals. Same happens with some company-wide engineering process which is assumed to autonomously adopted by teams (like risk-management), but it's not always the case.

      4.0
      Aug 5, 2024

      Good company with strict management

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good salaries - Career Path - Lots of talented people - Nice offices - 40% Discount

      Cons

      - Strict Hybrid work setting 2 days a week. - Employees' opinions don't really contribute to the management decision.

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