Some good, some plain bad, still has potential - Senior Software Engineer Zalando Employee Review

Thank you for taking the time to give us your feedback. We are sorry to read about your experience and would specifically like to address your concerns regarding team health and leadership. Both topics are important to us as an organization and we take this sort of feedback very seriously. At Zalando we strive for building a culture where teams can achieve great things and talents work well together. We expect our leaders to give guidance and support to their teams. Our Founding Mindset, a guide for everyday leadership, sets leadership principles for all levels of the company. We try our best to hold leads accountable and to role model these principles, as well as use them for our performance evaluations. When it comes to new leads, we offer dedicated leadership training to ensure our new leaders have all the tools necessary to be successful in their role by understanding and contributing to our company culture. This program offers insights into our history, our culture, and helps participants to reflect on their leadership approach in the context of their new role. In addition, our leads go through performance evaluations just like the rest of the employees. We encourage leaders to nominate feedback providers from different employee groups (directs, peers, stakeholders) to receive feedback based on their functional capabilities and leadership principles. This allows us to get a holistic view of individual performance and offer further support if necessary. Our quarterly team health feedback survey (zBeat) measures culture and engagement among teams at Zalando and helps us to identify areas where we still need to improve. Our managers are responsible for reviewing the results for their team and we also offer support to help leads and teams understand their results and take action on the survey responses to grow stronger. In addition, company results are reviewed by our Management Board as well to help assess employee engagement and drive further initiatives. In case you'd like to have a further discussion and provide us with more feedback, please feel free to reach out to me Sonja Sinterhauf: sonja.sinterhauf@zalando.de