Possibly the lowest level of management for a new software company that I have seen: level and people management.
Managers are just focused on their personal career and headcount. The more people, the more power.
It is one of these companies that poorly cares of its people and teams, even less about their products.
A lot of politics being a subsidary of Daimler and they already took the habit to have organisational changes yearly, getting more strong army structure similar to daimler.
If you want to see how sw was done in the 90s, control, power games, middle management and all its related inefficiencies, this is the place to be.
The engineering leads that manage the people are at very poor level, incompetent wanna be managers, conflicts are daily events job. Product owners have no product and are jira tool accountants.
Nobody focuses on customers or solutions or technology and when there are problems the command and control is straightned in the company structure.
Too many different ways of thinking among managers, people doing the real work and conflicts. Infrastructure and code is pretty far from the state of art and the incompetent leads hire more and more incompetent people.
I joined with the false promise that this company was created to change and improve how daimler makes software, I am now struggling by the poor skills of its management, politics, the horrible tech level and mindset of the 9-5 unskilled people or wanna-be-managers. The best ones are staying short and most have already left.
In general a company that does not deliver value and does not care about it, their survival is linked to making happy daimler managers. They will survive as long as daimler has money to waste, if the company had to live of the products they have (not) delivered to the market, it would be already broke.
If you care about your job, and I do, the working hours can be very long as you need to fix lots of problems that nobody else care. If you raise a problem you become the problem and you are also responsible to fix it.
I am leaving soon, I already have other options and sadly it was a professional waste of time.
HR is useless and very burocratic... last year the company tried to create a culture and values but it started from the teams and hr did not even participate. No surprise that nobody cares about the values anymore.
Salaries are below many others sw companies in berlin (I have 3 other offers, also from startup, all higher), quite much lower of colleagues doing the same job in daimler.
If you want to improve, if you want to see 2020 management, if you like working agile or good sw product creation, if you look for a company that cares about tech and invest in your growth... maybe you want to consider other options.
