growth pain? - Anonymous employee Remerge Employee Review

Dear former colleague, Thank you for your feedback and we are sorry to hear that your experience here at Remerge did not meet your expectations. We will certainly discuss the points you raised to see how we can improve and we would also like to share our thoughts on them: Hiring/promotions We open almost every new role to both internal and external applicants and we try to involve all relevant stakeholders in the process. That includes hiring managers taking the input of the future peers and reports into their decision making. At the end of this process, we select the candidates that we believe are best suited to the respective roles. Management skills We are proud to offer career opportunities, including managerial roles, to colleagues of all ages and backgrounds. For those who are in their first or second role as a people manager this does of course represent a growth experience that may come with some bumps in the road. In order to support our people managers with their growth and development, we launched our 18-months long leadership program in Q2 2020 which consists of tools and sessions for self assessment and reflection as well as both professional and peer coaching and workshop modules and we are very happy with the results so far. Politics We cannot really comment without knowing more specifics but politics and power games certainly go against both our core values and leadership principles. Diversity & Equal Pay We will continue to work on broadening diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the company and in management but we are are glad that you recognize that we have made improvements already, a lot of which is actually due to our efforts to identify, promote and develop internal talent. In terms of pay gap, our diversity committee which we launched in Q3 2020 is currently looking into this topic. While the final analysis is pending, I can already share some interesting data points as of Jan 2021: - The highest paid employees in Germany and the US are both female and the two highest paid employees in Singapore are also both female. Those countries represent more than 90% of our workforce. - In all countries where the highest paid employee is not female, such as Korea and Japan, our second-highest paid employees are female. That is of course only part of the whole picture (though a very important one) and we will continue to evaluate pay equity and do our best to address any issues we discover. Once again, thank you for your points, we wish you all the best!