Do not recommend working for this company - Software Engineer Kaufland e-commerce Employee Review

1.0
9 June 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They have a nice office and seem to attract nice people.

Cons

You can't trust anyone at this company, especially management. 2 weeks after I started at the company, members of my team had emotional break downs in private meetings. There was real crying and real tears and a lot complaining about bad company treatment by the same people who had previously told me during the job interview that they were happy to be the company. Originally I had believed I had made the right choice starting at this company only to find out that my colleagues had to take 2 week "mental health" breaks only return to the company visibility upset to be back at work. In reality these were 2 week breaks in which my colleagues had been searching for new jobs and they had returned to work encouraging team members to find new jobs. The phrase "I hate this company" was uttered under their breath often as long as managers were not within hearing range, and I was still within my first 4 months working at the company. I later found out that management had singled out the team I was placed into as a "problematic" team. Meaning they hired me and gave me the worst possible circumstances in which to perform. As a foreigner, it truly upset me to know I had invested so much into working at this company only to find out so many people had really hated their jobs and I was given the worst set of circumstances to start a new job. I don't wish this environment on anyone. Talking badly about the company is obviously discouraged. While the company does try hard to encourage their staff to leave positive reviews on platforms like this. So some of the positivity in other reviews here is manufactured by the company, and not necessarily an employee's genuine review. I am much happier working for another company. I am able to deliver 10x more code than I could at Kaufland e-commerce. I am not just a negative person or a negative reviewer as the company will write it off to be. Kaufland e-commerce has issues that they will dismiss as unimportant or blame their employees for. In my experience they don't really make an effort to resolve real problems at the company.

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Kaufland e-commerce Response
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Hi and thank you for your feedback and the time you took to give your review! We apologize that you didn’t have a good experience with us, and that your circumstances to start were less than ideal. Of course, ideally, we want everyone to be included directly from the beginning in a positive work environment, and we're sorry that wasn't the case for you. We will check the situation. We understand that starting a job in Germany as a foreigner takes up much more energy than in your home country, and we thank you for choosing and placing your trust in Kaufland e-commerce as your employer in a foreign country. We're sorry if you feel we are manipulating you or someone else into writing positive reviews for us as a company. However, we don't ask our employees to write positive reviews per se; we only ask that they review us accurately so that we can improve. Of course, we also appreciate a 1:1 approach if there are problems so that we can take concrete action. We wish you all the best! HR Team

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