Ruthless - Senior Database Reliability Engineer Kaufland e-commerce Employee Review

1.0
23 Feb 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Learning budget 200 USD/yr. Free fruits twice a week. 80% discount on Job ticket. Employees keep enjoying sick leaves once every 2 weeks (this is what I observed in "Team Persist", under their "T&P dept")

Cons

Have fake culture of values, however as an employee, I felt ruthlessness towards employees. The manager suddenly decided to end the contract without giving me any deadline/timeline or ever setting any KPIs. Only reason I was given was feedback given by the team anonymously. Note the my contract was permanent contract, still this happened. During my 4 months of presence in this firm, I saw 7 to 8 departures. I saw this as managers announce in the Slack group (of wider team) about " deciding to part ways" or " deciding to leave". It is obvious, that if employee has resigned by him/herself then they would serve a notice period and put the exit/goodbye message themselves. Most of the mid and top level managers appears to be around 30's. If an prospective candidate has age more than 30, I would say be ready to accept orders from young people who does not care for your higher experience. They are in their world of quick growth or out of the company mindset.

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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 write it. We are very sorry that you felt a lack of communication during your employment and offboarding afterwards. It is always our aim to clearly communicate the expectations of the position at an early stage, but also when expectations are not met. That is why we hold initial feedback cycles after the first 3 month, in which we collect anonymous feedback from colleagues, which the manager then passes on to you together with their own feedback. We develop our managers through a number of internal training courses and initiatives (Mentoring Program, Leadership Circle, Feedback Training etc.) to ensure transparancy against employees. We're sorry if you felt the feedback wasn't transparent enough. We see ourselves as an international company, as our employees come from over 65 different countries. We are aware that moving to another country brings with it many changes and that is why we take special care to ensure that our international employees feel welcome by engaging an external agency and by providing you with important initial infomation from our HR team. Since it means a special effort for all parties involved, it is always our goal that employees work for us in the long term and have a perspective at Kaufland e-commerce. However, if we no longer see a long-term perspective, we will strive to find a fair solution for the termination. We are very sorry that you had a different expectation that could not be fulfilled. We wish you all the best and a good start in Germany. HR Team

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