The most horrible management and working culture in Berlin. Don't even consider it if you have another option.
Pros
Berlin Employees like to brag about the chilled working environment (8h/day, almost no one works over hours), the fact that there's no dress code (I mean, really?), "free" food (there are literally like 10 bananas and one or two bowls of fruits for an entire department with more than 200 people. I have personally never seen these fruits, but apparently they exist) and free beverages (cola, beers and sugary juices. Because health comes first).
Cons
I have never seen such a creepy and awful working environment like Auto1. I mean, not for a company that calls itself a "tech company". I have never seen a professional environment where it is okay and normal to openly mistreat employees, culture that empowers people to mistreat each other, useless and overstaffed departments, absolutely unprepared "leaders" ruling entire teams for no good reason or "meritocracy", the most awful internal communication without any transparency, strict hierarchy like "the boss asked so I gotta do it without questioning". You even ask yourself sometimes if you're stuck in a post war scene. There's absolutely nothing that justifies the childish aggressiveness of managers over there. Within employees everyone knows that the company is a joke. It is the kind of place that you walk in and see no life or passion in people's eyes because everyone knows that no matter how brilliant you are, you're not gonna be able to develop anything because the management will never allow you to. So everyone is just there to obey and get their payslips, secretly chasing other jobs because it is fairly impossible to stay over a year at that horrible place. Check turnover rates. It's unbelievable.
