GetYourGuide: Good company gone horrible

2,0

1 dic 2021

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Aprobación del CEO

Perspectiva de la empresa

Ventajas

* Beside COVID-19, business opportunity is big * Well funded * Some talented colleagues * Learning budget, even though they keep changing the amount and the rules

Desventajas

* Average pay (used to be slightly above average but missed recent market move) * Upper management is disconnected from reality and continue to ignore any and all signals whether they are direct as in direct-feedback or indirect as in resignation waves * For Engineering, promotion is granted for showing off, actual work and day-to-day business is not considered * Example: once presenting a tech lunch was removed from being a promotion-worthy activity, the schedule ran embarrassingly dry that the CTO stepped-in and scheduled a monthly AMA session, that was also an embarrassment because everyone joined just because it's the CTO but the discussions were very basic and weak * Even with "retention grant of virtual shares", resignations are hitting all teams and all roles, EMs, PMs, and engineers on all levels * Failure to fill the positions, the company had doubled and tripled referral bonus, yet they still have to promote engineers to Engineering Management positions at last minute, which brings the next point * Instead of "raising the bar" as the company claims when filling in positions, they are instead pushing employees with no management experience to management role by the promise of faster higher pay vs working longer to be promoted to Staff-level * While multiple companies acknowledged COVID-19 stress and fatigue in various ways like additional time-off, the company refused to do any of that even with the employees demanding it every single global update meeting, instead they offered access to unofficial therapy sessions, another example of disconnect between upper management and employees * Operations teams are usually mistreated, as an engineer I don't usually work daily with operations teams but I had the opportunity to work multiple times with operations and it was obvious how they have higher load with peanut pay and little-to-no appreciation or career path progression

Respuesta de GetYourGuide

Hello, Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. We’re sorry to hear you feel this way about your time at GetYourGuide. We always strive to keep open communication between our employees and senior leadership. To address your concerns regarding compensation, we work with market salary tiers to ensure equal compensation for employees in similar positions and incorporate peer-reviews in our biannual performance review cycles to keep it fair and avoid biases. The individual contributor track is just as valued as management and runs in parallel at the same levels based on the impact and related scope of the role. We pride ourselves in our ability to provide opportunities to engineers who want to try management and see if the people path is right for them. See our blog for more details on the Associate Engineering Manager program (https://inside.getyourguide.com/blog/relevant/associate-engineering-manager-program-overview). We hope you took advantage of any of the different feedback options - like your one-on-one meetings with your manager, the anonymous monthly employee surveys, and our Global Updates’ Q&A sessions to express your concerns. Also the HR team is available for confidential conversations or to potentially mediate uncomfortable situations. If someone is in need of an anonymous feedback channel the Employee Representation group (ERG) will collect their feedback and speak on their behalf with relevant stakeholders. Additionally, our Talent Development team receives data from our monthly employee engagement survey tool, Peakon, and creates action plans together with managers touching upon improvement areas given directly by the employees. Together with feedback from the Global Updates this has led to recent changes to our benefits and perks to more directly address the needs of our employees during these challenging times. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts and taking the time to write this review. We wish you all the best in your future. Kind regards, GetYourGuide

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