- The upper management (C-Levels mostly, but some managers as well) are extremely incompetent. They have no idea on the direction of the company, what to prioritize and how to tackle the many issues N26 has since the hypergrowth started.
- The company is completely driven by politics. There is no way to advance in the company doing a good job, only playing the politics game.
- A huge amount of bureaucracy. It feels like 80% of the time is spent writing forms, begging for approvals from people that have no idea what they are going or waiting for some part of the infrastructure to be fixed.
- The CEO seems to care more about his hair than about his employees. How is it possible that someone buys a private AC for his office and doesn't even provide fans to the employees? Would someone that cares about his employees migrate all the tech department to an office that looks like a construction site while himself only moves when everything is almost done 5 months later?
- There is a ton of legacy code that is no being tacked because the company is too focused on expanding to new markets. The product is basically frozen in time and hasn't had any new feature in the past year.
- I haven't ever seen such a bigger turnover rate in a company. Every week someone is leaving.
- While there are some great engineering managers, others are just dead weight to the team. Their only job is to approve vacations and give useless talks about feedback.
- There are so many levels of management the company looks like a military organization. Some teams have even more managers than creators.
