LeanIX Reviews

If you’re working in the Bonn office, things will be much better than if you are in the US. There is no trust between Germany and the US— in fact, I always surmised that the German team thought the US team as less qualified. There is no diversity amongst the ranks. Almost entirely white male at manager level and above. They are working to correct this situation, but honestly, they are dragging their feet. The CEO “owns” the company. It is his way or the highway. He has only worked as a consultant before starting LeanIX and is not a professional CEO. He is tremendously command and control. And only really trusts the people he has known before in other companies. He makes grandiose statements at company meetings but the fact that LeanIX has an undifferentiated solution in a crowded market doesn’t seem to phase him. No one has ownership in the company — it is reserved for senior management and a select few cronies. Yet they consistently talk about valuation at company meetings — cruel! BTW, if you disagree or are contrarian to the senior management team, you will be let go — not obviously, but certainly. There are many people in management positions who should not be — but they are friends or family of the senior leadership team. Also— question the metrics! There is no lying in maths and whilst numbers can be manipulated, they are not what they seem ...

No one in leadership is equipped to deal with any important topics relevant for people of color, women or other marginalized groups because none of them are people of color or women. There is no effort to change this or evolve and it shows. Minority employees will be made jump through hoops to get the bare minimum while white men are promoted into positions they are under-qualified for but may show potential in. Women will be sidelined for these same positions because they don’t know how to recognize their most talented female employees and what makes them huge assets for running all parts of the business. They will never paid as much as men doing the same job and there is no effort to bring transparency into why or how people are measured. Posts on social media about diversity are reused each time the holiday comes around (or they might even forget to recognize black history month). It’s all for looks. The only effort to make things better for these employees is led by those employees themselves, which is all bottom up since no managers want to touch the topic with a ten foot pole. White people, be better. The CEO never steps up when it comes to dealing with difficult topics and brushes them under the rug. This is not a problem for those with privilege but is just questionable ethics and mortgaging the future of the company culture for short term success. It leaves the most vulnerable employees exploited. Many of the managers are white men who are complicit in these systems and hold their female employees back by not knowing how to manage them and empower them. Many are underpaid for the work they do while others get ushered in with giant salaries based on their past experience in tech, even if it is not relevant and obviously not an indicator of success.