OMMAX Reviews

- This place will make you age 10 years in a year, and it will not be worth it. I have no idea how delusional they are of their importance and the work they are doing, but in most cases I have witnessed them spending time on the most useless things for hours, that could easily be done by a single qualified individual or even better, could be automated. - There is absolutely no work-life balance. When I joined, the person who was training me in, told me verbatim, “you’re so lucky you get to leave work at 19:00, when I was new for the first few months I was working till 23:00”. And she was very proud of it, too. The more overworked you are, the better you are viewed here. I once left the office at 18:30 (once I had completed my tasks), and someone from the team complained to my manager that she felt that, “I didn’t take my work seriously because I seemed too calm”. So, if you’d like to feel like you’re back at high school, with ongoing backbiting and a toxic gossip culture, this should be your dream workplace. - To re-iterate what I have already stated above: I had colleagues who were so over-worked that they were visibly anxious and agitated all the time. Even then they felt the pressure to take on more work, and perhaps work during evenings and public holidays, which they then casually mentioned very proudly. - They obsess (and when I say obsess, I cannot emphasize this enough) over your educational background. This in turn also represents how backward thinking and old school their company culture is. This is something you’ll surely not see in bigger or more international companies or agencies, because in most cases you are evaluated on the basis of the work you deliver, not the number of degrees you have accumulated on the shelf. To make this even funnier, there were some individuals in upper management who were so unbelievably tiring about their degrees or doctorates, that they would mention it in conversations every chance they got, and would include it in their titles during casual workplace communication. These doctorates had absolutely, nothing to do with the field they were in, but I guess it helped them feel good about themselves. In a way I guess it was also sort of cute to watch them be so desperate for this sort of attention. To make it worse, they were surrounded by the exact type of people who were going to inflate their egos. I guess that's why those people were around them. - Watching the upper management in action was always a spectacle. The real PhD they had was in sounding confident about topics they had absolutely no clue about. It was purely entertaining to see them talk so confidently about things they clearly didn't understand. It was a real talent - the art of talking without really knowing what you're talking about. - As someone who had just joined the team, I was surprised by how much gossip was allegedly part of their daily routine. This, for me, is an immediate red flag and the first sign of an immature team and workplace. I repeatedly found myself in situations where team members were gossiping about others who they were working with, but were extremely sweet and almost even fond of them when they had an encounter face-to-face. - I’ve seen people logging in and reporting on projects when they are too sick to even speak properly, or right after they’ve had a baby (while still on parental leave). It seems to me like, OMMAX strives to create an unhealthy work place relationship. There’s no such thing as a boundary here, expect to receive messages at all times of the day, weekends, or public holidays. - English was absolutely not the company language. Which is totally fine… as long as they don’t spend hours marketing this during the hiring and interview process. German is predominately spoken in team meetings whenever they have the opportunity to do so (mostly they won't care if a few international people can't understand), as well as the everyday talk is also obviously in German. So, if that’s not what you’re looking for, then best to stay away. - The least international place I’ve worked at. Again, if this is something you’re looking for then great. But they love marketing how “international” they are, but if you join, you’ll quickly see how desperate they are to market themselves as multicultural or international by showcasing the few foreigners they have in marketing ads. - When I was there, their hiring strategy seemed questionable. They hired people for upper management so that they themselves could move further upwards. These hired individuals didn’t have a specific role carved out. When people started picking up on this, upper management was quick to claim that people in the team were being impatient. This was supposedly because they had no better answer for defining a better strategy or task description for this particular unqualified individual who took up a director role, when she clearly lacked basic communication skills. - They love to pretend that they are a fast-growing company, but if you join, you’ll quickly see that all of this is just a facade. This is a small mindset company that has absolutely no idea how to grow. - They keep hiring interns and asking them to do the tasks that could be automated in no time. But when you offer to do this for them, they are not interested in learning. From what I heard from the interns they get bored very quickly with these repetitive tasks that they are not learning much from after the second time. This is again, in my opinion because they don’t have a long-term growth mindset. - They have an anti-improvement culture. There seems to be set (and very outdated) standards in place that are not revised nor looked upon in hopes to improve them for a smoother day to day working system. What I mean is, incredibly old-style way of working. Renovating their offices just basically changes the packaging on an expired product. - There is no proper training system in place. During my first few months, there were countless times when I asked how a specific calculation or methodology was derived, and I was repeatedly told by multiple different people, “I can’t really explain it, but you’ll learn how to do it when you're here long enough”. Which clearly means that they don’t understand it properly themselves. - I have been in client facing calls, where I was embarrassed to be part of the team. You could see how ill-prepared the team was, because they supposedly spent most of their time on making sure their packaging looked great, instead of understanding the logic behind their work. - There is no feedback process in place. Up at the top is basically an echo chamber where they're quick to boot out anyone who doesn't feed into their delusions. Of course, all of the above mentioned is just my experience and opinion to help people make better, more informed decisions about the company in question.