Emma reviews

* Low salary, way below Frankfurt average. And it might not improve as they aggressively open new headquarters to get access to cheaper talents elsewhere in the world. Consequently, high turnover rate. The average tenure in Emma is 7 months. * Slow promotion process. Even though Emma claims to be a start-up, you can consider promotions to be as slow as in corporates. Probably in the past, many positions were vacant but now the hierarchy is full. * Huge workload and there are concerns about work-life balance as well as hire-fire practice. * Less and less candor in meetings. If you voice a new idea, you usually are the one to implement it. People then just play the game of "who speaks first". * Decision is made often with few people on the top so there is no such thing as " everybody is welcome to challenge existing ideas and voice their ideas". * Emma is aggressively expanding everything, so all facilities are very thin and every project is halfway done. Foundation of growth is as thin as spring ice. It is very messy at the end.

The culture - Emma DNA is not real, people don’t actually embody and live up to it. Besides being entrepreneurial. Ie highly political company, no team feeling - teams are often pitted against each other, accountability is really low A lot of the team leads are really junior and don’t know how to manage a team and people, many have been promoted as a retention mechanism. This generates frustration within the teams and poor performance. As the teams don’t know what and how to do things this also generates frustration and collision with other teams which have dependencies. As performance is not objectively measured and managers don’t know how to evaluate the quality of the work performed as they are not experts themselves and don’t know how to manage a team, the more you show up up to discussions to give your opinion and make yourself heard, the best. This create an atmosphere where everyone is always challenging everyone and people are afraid to speak when they are actually knowledgeable about the topics because agreeness only comes when certain people speak even if you said the same thing 2 minutes before.