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Nice team, incompetent leadership and zero product vision - Anonymous employee Feather (Germany) Employee Review

1.0
2 Dec 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Nice team and colleagues - Full remote is a big plus

Cons

- No perspective of growth in the company - Processes seems to be blocked in the pre-internet era - No interest in building a healthy people culture - Founders are obsessed with growth and launching new markets, with no product vision

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3.0
6 Jan 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people who work at Feather are kind, smart, and create a fun work environment. There is a lot of flexibility to make suggestions, take on new, self-guided projects, and really build something from the ground up. The remote work policy is really great (you can travel and work from anywhere in Europe basically). The learning budget and home office benefit are really helpful.

Cons

Diversity is a big issue. The team is almost all men and they only seem to hire women into communications or customer service roles. Maybe fewer women apply for developer and data roles, but it's hard to believe they haven't found a single woman to fill an engineering position. Even some jobs that have more female applicants (e.g. design) seem to only be filled by men. At this point, the sea of male faces is probably scaring women off from applying. The company is bootstrapping, which is admirable. However, this also means that the salaries are nowhere close to industry standard, particularly for customer service/operations. This means it's hard to attract quality candidates across the board, and since it's mostly women being hired for those customer service/operations roles, this also perpetuates a cycle of gender-based salary inequity. There's also no HR to speak of, which means that hiring processes are always chaotic. Feather hires non-EU citizens but gives almost no support in arranging work permits or helping with relocation. It also puts people in the uncomfortable position of having to bring up any issue directly with one of the founders rather than going through HR.

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Feather (Germany) Response
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We would like to thank you for your feedback! We couldn’t agree more with what has been said in terms of diversity. Since you’ve left we initiated a push in the direction of fixing this issue - we onboarded a People person and some more team members in the Product teams that happen to be part of an underrepresented group in tech. We’ve also adjusted our salary range to be more in line with what the market rate would be in Berlin. We are fully aware that in particular, the diversity issue requires continuous work, so if you have any further comments or ideas, please share them with ana@feather-insurance.com
1.0
14 July 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Some wonderful humans work here - Flexibility to a degree

Cons

- Certain people in leadership positions are inexperienced which leads to plenty of wasted time -Supported me during my pregnancy, but was treated in a cold and unwelcome manner by my manager after I went on maternity leave -Refused to provide a reason why they wished to end my permanent contract - Made a lot of promises regarding financial compensation before starting the role and during my time there that didn't materialise into anything

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