Don't do it if you have better options - Anonymous employee Zalando Employee Review

1.0
22 Feb 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Opens doors when you wanna exit.

Cons

0 control over your career. I don't exagerate. Utterly unpredictable performance appraisal & rewards. A take-it-or-leave-it kind of approach. I'm saying this as a person that was promoted pretty soon after joining. I navigated the system, but at no point I knew what was expected of me and what were the rewards. Extremely weak mid-level managers. The most unprofessional I've worked with. Pay is on average sub par and opaque. Bottom line: if you have better options, don't join.

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Zalando Response
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We are grateful you took the time to write us a review and share your feedback. We are sorry to hear about your experience and would like to address your concern regarding our performance management system. With our regular talent reviews at Zalando, we try to calibrate the lead’s assessment against a talent’s peer group to maintain the performance bar and make fair decisions. We have also recently introduced new role expectations in Technology to help provide more clarity on expectations from each seniority level and how our talents can grow in their respective job family or move into a different role. Our regular development talks should enable talents to openly discuss their career aspirations, development goals and opportunities with their lead to help create a suitable development plan. We are also committed to investing in leads enablement to ensure meaningful development talks take place across our organization. As a current employee, I would encourage you to reach out to me and I would gladly discuss these and any other concerns you may have. Please feel free to contact me directly: Sonja Sinterhauf - sonja.sinterhauf@zalando.de

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