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Great team, great mission - Product Designer Feather (Germany) Employee Review

5.0
6 Oct 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Feather's culture is great. Talented people, no egos and lots of collaboration. Most of the team is remote, but we meet at Factory every now and then so it never feels distant. Carreer opportunities are here and there's lots of space for growth. There's also a great product-market fit so the direction is always clear, even though it's still a young company. For a designer I'd say it's the perfect place to grow, there's enough structure to be supported and lots of opportunities to contribute and to quickly see your work benefit customers.

Cons

Not many. It's a small team so it can be busy in the operations side to support customers, but the team is growing quickly to help on that front.

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Feather (Germany) Response
4y
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We're happy to read it, and thanks for helping us build a diverse company you enjoy being a part of. Any issue, suggestion, or feedback, do feel free to reach out to our People Ops: ana@feather-insurance.com

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3.0
6 Jan 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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
4y
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
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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