Zalando reviews

Absolute lack of corporate culture, taking care of and value employees. High school environment, teenage behavior, low salaries, horrible Senior Mgmt, won't promote you even if you reach or exceeded all goals that were decided at annual review. Senior Mgmt safeguard their own position instead of encourage you by giving you a promotion. Some interns and employees got fired when home ill (for only a day), returned to the office and they had no job. Some got the notice of getting fired by the security guards at the entrance, when suddenly their key card didn't work on their last day of the 6-month trial period (without ever getting a notice from Mgmt beforehand). Bad introduction for new hires. Matrix organization that is extremely problematic. Too many in middle-mgmt, but they've scaled down on that now. Too much micro-mgmt. It varies a lot between the departments, some Heads are truly horrific and treat the employees insanely bad (crazy this haven't been on TV yet), others are real good but can't to much in the stiff organization. Grew too big too fast with CEO/CMO/COO etc. that are 28-30 years old who doesn't know about people management, they're entrepreneurs!

- messy environment, unclear structure - no career path - lack of access to external trainings - known cases where relocation costs were promised to be returned but then HR pretended that they know nothing about these agreements - still very german company at its roots (although there are more and more people from around the world coming each day the higher positions are mostly occupied by Germans) - unequal treatment: some get opportunity to go on conferences, others don't; some get opportunity share their opinions, others don't; some get the right to evaluate new tools and technologies, other don't; some can work on a "new cool things" other have to maintain the old crap (usually started by "privileged ones"); etc. That being said I believe that Zalando has no other way to go than to go up (but this is mostly because of its business model and market needs than the way the company operates).