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      Zalando

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      Zalando reviews

      3.6

      67% would recommend to a friend

      (2,224 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 2,224 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
      4.0
      May 8, 2017

      Interesting growing company

      Senior manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Great challenges faced always. Especially in the start up phase they were extremely open to give you freedom in what you can do at that age

      Cons

      Lack of structure, lots of changing strategies if any

      4.0
      May 1, 2017

      Growth and changes

      Data scientist
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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.

      2.0
      Apr 29, 2017

      Zalando in general

      Bi analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexible working hours No stresfull work Nice colleagues Opportunities to learn by the technology provided but by yourself

      Cons

      Low salary, ok for people who joined later, no adjustment made after No transperency regarding growing opportunities No shared knowledge No devolopment path, everything has to be learned by yourself, minimal support from lead and colleagues No documentation, chaotic work flow Many people are not happy but still stay as they are too comfortable with the flexibility the job comes with, this is bad as it influences also the chances of the people who want to develop inside the company and not be forced to leave because of low salaries and unstructured system

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