Lack of vision, empathy and leadership - Anonymous employee N26 Employee Review

2.0
1 Oct 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great flexibility - Salaries are pretty good - Product is actually very good

Cons

- The leadership across the whole company is either extremely inexperienced or extremely incapable, making poor decisions that leave anyone with even a decent bit of experience baffled. - You never feel trust in them, rather you always feel they are hiding something (and usually they are) so it feels just like a constant political environment. If you ever wonder how did someone got to be a leader, you connect the dots and realise that they were probably the friend (or friend of a friend) of a higher up. - Your skills and experience are worthless. You see how amazingly talented people is fired while people you wondered "how the hell did this person got hired" keeps their job because they are friends with some big-boss. - Hire people without a clear path and vision, specially a lot of international talent that they relocate, only to fire them a couple fo months later due to budget cuts, endangering entire families constantly.

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N26 Response
2y
Thanks so much for your detailed feedback; we’re really sorry to hear that you didn’t have the best experience working at N26. We take all feedback very seriously so if you’d like to have a more detailed discussion about the issues you’ve raised, we encourage you to send an email to glassdoorfeedback@n26.com On a positive note, it's great that you speak highly of the N26 product and recognise the flexibility that was offered to you. Thanks again for your feedback and we wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours.

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Pros

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Thanks for sharing your feedback with us and your experience of working at N26.
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