Pluspunten
If you're about to retire, want a "german dream" kinda job, quiet, pointless, but safe, with a bunch of benefits and a retirement plan, if you enjoy playing politics more than actually doing your job, if you love drowning in bureaucracy, if you enjoy masochism in form of HR ignoring your emails (with follow-ups) for months (!), if it's important for you to have a massage at work, drink some (sometimes) free drinks and do *anything* to avoid work, especially if you prefer to pretend working instead of doing actual work - this is a PERFECT place for you! Irony aside, there are/were some good things: corporate parties (aspen) with travels to other countries, some good people and amazing colleagues, real professionals who can teach you something, not only something related to work. It's a shame that awin doesn't value that much highly motivated, hard working and professional people.
Minpunten
They pretend to be inclusive. Indeed, there are people from all over the world, of different sexual orientations, young and old working there. They have slideshow kind of trainings, with questionary at the end, basically giving idea of what is right or wrong at the workplace, what is sexual and other kind of abuse at work etc. At the same time, they discriminate based on age. A quote from one of my managers, which have changed quite frequently: "you're still young". This was used as an argumentation not to discuss pay raise, or even creating a plan what I need to do to achieve it. In some departments, I had observed cases of bullying and psychological pressure over the years, possibly also related to age discrimination: older people are being joked about (behind their backs), younger are being denied their "seniority". Talking about the raise... They believe, it seems, in some kind of socialism: everyone should get more or less the same pay on similar positions. The problem is, when someone outperforms their colleagues, they don't get rewarded for that. Meanwhile, others can "chill" doing less work or performing with questionable quality, and getting away with the same compensation. Why? Well, one of the reasons, middle management is busy amusing and "making things look good" for those "above" them, not really caring about those "below" them, who at times have to suffer from bad decisions. Most important task is to sell a nice story to their bosses, doesn't matter what it costs to people actually doing work or what it would cost in the future to maintain badly designed solutions. Another good example of everyday awin hypocrisy: top management declares (2020) "we're going 4 day working week! Yeehaaa! It's not going to affect your pay or future raises". At the same time, the moment people asked for a raise, they got replies from their line management something like "you already got 4 day week, should be enough for you". What about hiring contractors with considerably better pay for interesting projects, while senior engineers, who worked for years for this company, have to perform humiliating tasks of copy pasting, cleaning up code after others, and dealing with legacy, all the while being denied a raise? Cherry on top: some of the tech stack engineers have to deal with is still 20 (!!!) years old. Maybe they consider it A WIN, let me just call it "awin". An "honorable mention" deserves a position of Business Partner, part of the HR team. While companies create "People Partner" positions instead, with focus on individuals and their needs for benefit of those individuals and consequently the business itself, awin prefers to put accent on "business". Business partners side with managers, for whatever reason, instead of even attempting to understand a problem and solve it. They declare awin to be a tech company, but instead of learning from giants how to create a comfortable atmosphere and environment for engineers and tech people, they will make you fill out excel sheet reports and deal with paperwork, something that could be easily "outsourced" to HR or whoever else. Some departments (not talking only about IT/Engineering here) are heavily understaffed, some are lacking automation, performing A LOT of copy-pasting and other manual work. It feels a bit like a startup that expanded and turned into real business, but forgot to evolve. Instead of evolution they brought a bunch of bureaucracy in form of formal meetings, emails, reports and paperwork. Already your first day *might* start from the fact that the company "forgot" to order a laptop or other equipment for you. I'd seen examples when people had to wait for weeks for a replacement too. But not everything is so grim of course, there are plenty of talented people, you will have some fun moments and might even learn something and, if you're lucky, you'll get into a nice team or even get a nice manager.
