Air Up Reviews

If you are unlucky enough to get hired, that's when you start experiencing all the signs of a toxic work environment: - Micromanagement: I felt leadership was not interested in my professional opinion on many tasks and felt obliged to carry on with decisions that in my opinion would ultimately harm the business interests, or the customer's. Disagree and commit is a great principle, if coupled with accountability. But if things went south, leadership let the responsibility of the mistakes fall on who executed - The "brutal honesty" approach: honesty is at the core of air up company culture. But don't expect the radical candor type of honesty, but rather frequent front-stabbing feedback and public humiliations - Non-existent work-life balance: expectations are high, so you will likely have quite an important workload to deal with daily. Most of the employees are very committed and work extra-hours, occasionally on weekends, to keep up with expectations, without any reward (salary wise or even verbally). But if you actually get caught working over hours, you will be blamed for it and considered underperforming. So make sure you appear offline while you're trying to finish your task after 10.00 pm - Insane turnover: those nice colleagues you'd like to bond with? They will be likely gone within a few months. Almost weekly, someone leaves the company on their own or simply just "disappears" from the system, no explanation given, leaving projects and teams bouncing from hand to hand and psychologically straining who's left behind - I know it's Germany, but forget job safety: your job here is not guaranteed. Unless you're a close friend to the co-founders, you can be potentially laid off any minute, independently of performance or tenure. In some occasions, they will try to convince you to leave on your own, using classic techniques (your manager might set unreasonable objectives, publicly humiliate you, provide constant and unjustified negative feedback to make you feel unworthy of your job) In a nutshell, if you want to keep your job and your mental health, steer far away from air up.

-Severe micromanagement in the influencer team. -Lack of direction in meetings. There were a lot of meetings every day that repeated the same Information and took up a lot of valuable time without adding anything beneficial. -Goals were set by upper management with no regard for the opinion of the team who would be carrying them out. This resulted in extreme stress for the team and needing to work overtime, evenings, and weekends with no extra pay to try to hit them. -The US arm of the company wants to mirror the culture of the EU team but it has not been successful. It is just like any other US company and is a true start-up in the sense they want to squeeze everything it can out of you. -Feedback is not given. I never had a feedback meeting with any management to go over my performance or goals for my time there. - Pay is not competitive for the amount of work expected.