Nice colleagues, interesting tasks, home office (alsmost 100% possible), very nice office in Berlin and great benefits
Cons
Pay for working students is not as good compared to other comparible start ups in berlin
Vimcar Response
3y
Dear employee,
Thank you for your positive feedback.
We are very happy to hear that you are having a consistently positive experience with us at Vimcar.
To also address the con you have raised: Our current working student compensation is based on benchmarking research. We appreciate your feedback and we will keep your comment in mind when we reevaluate our compensation structure.
Thank you again for the feedback! We are looking forward to continue working with you!
Best regards,
Vimcar HR Team
Dear former employee,
thank you for providing feedback on your work experience with Vimcar. Even though you did not work with us for a long time, we are glad that you enjoyed your time with us and that you especially perceived the cooperation with your colleagues as this pleasant and helpful.
We wish you all the best for your personal and professional future and would like to encourage you to keep an eye on future jobs here at Vimcar so that we might have the pleasure of working with you again. https://careers.vimcar.com/en/jobs
Best regards,
Vimcar HR Team
- Friendly, caring people
- Hard-working and dynamic work environment
- Management with a short and long term strategy (not always the case with start-ups)
- Great office
- Salaries are very reasonable
Cons
- For a Berlin start-up it is not so international (although it is more so these days), it is still quite German e.g. although everyone CAN speak English, most people speak German around the office
- They are inflexible with regards to remote working. You have to live in Berlin 365 days a year if you want to work there
Vimcar Response
4y
Dear former employee,
Thank you for taking the time to provide such comprehensive feedback, which we take very seriously and therefore appreciate you taking the time and effort to do so.
We are especially happy that you perceived the team spirit and the working environment as consistently positive when working with us. We emphasize creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and appreciated and value your positive experience!
Thank you also for pointing out things that we can improve on, as we continuously want to get better.
Our Vimcar team has 34 nationalities today and we want everyone to feel they belong. That's why we have already taken action to ensure that English is used consistently as the official company language through our recently announced workplace policy. These include, among other things, that:
- Documentation which is accessible to the whole company is in English
- Meetings are in English if at least one joiner is not natively speaking German
- At company events we are using English as default to lower the barrier for non-German speakers to join the conversations
- For our colleagues who doesn't feel so confident in English yet, we will continue to offer free English language courses
Regarding your feedback about remote working options: We have recognized that more flexibility is important and therefore already implemented new guidelines, which include among other things:
- Hybrid working: we encourage our employees to find their own optimal (=most productive) split between office and WFH
- Option to work remotely from outside of Germany for 8 weeks per year
If you have further questions about these topics, please feel free to reach out to us at careers@vimcar.com. We will be happy to provide you with more information!
We wish you all the best for your professional and personal career.
Best regards,
Vimcar HR Team