Place to develop skills but not for progressing in career
Pros
* Many smart and supportive colleagues, Definitely bring amazing ideas and help you grow. * Good tech stack and shoutout to focus on building AI experts and community. * Focuses on customer frustration and making sure customers are getting what they want to keep high customer engagement. * Demanding work but manageable work-life balance. * Company benefits are good. * Community building like table tennis tournaments, Tisch tennis tournaments, occasional breakfast bites or lunch
Cons
Specific to Lounge by Zalando: * Leadership has a blind eye to how unfairly people are treated. * Success is only measured in how much business received from shipping something. * Constantly changing leadership or their approach creates a lot of uncertainty and unstability into teams priorities, and business focus. * Seniority in Engineering are inexperienced and lack the capability to make decisions or bring ideas or mentorship. * Pay gap between you and other people on same level is huge (open salaries initiative shows that very clearly). * OFM principle not mentioned but highly respected and followed is: Politics and Favoritism first, Everything else second. * No 13th month salary or any kind of bonus. * Salary increment is almost non existent - 1-2% increase in a year maximum. * Promotions require a lot of politics or just forget it.