Arvato Software Developer reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(22 total reviews)

Frank Schirrmeister

44% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Arvato with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 22 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Arvato is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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22 reviews
3.0
Oct 29, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Most people are nice and friendly, the company is very accepting of foreign cultures and peoples, office is cosy, no limitations on home office, they give devs actually powerful and useful laptops

Cons

There are a lot of corporate policies and many of them seem bad or cringy to me. During the COVID pandemic, most people don't have a "set" desk in the office because most people are working from home every day, so it's hard to find a place to work if you go to the office; some people have set desks and some don't, it is hard to tell the difference between them. You might have a good or bad experience working here, very much depending on the team you are in; in some teams you might have a harder time to succeed: lacking management/direction, weak and lacking presence of business side. It seemed to me that they were not up front about limitations or some policies during the recruitment process. It feels like every month or two, they are making some changes to company policies and every time, I am liking it less and less and am once again pondering quitting. If all those changes were made rapidly or in one big batch, I would have quit. But these changes are incremental so it's harder to oppose them.

2.0
Oct 14, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay is ok and there is pension on top, not too bad. You can slack a lot as management are not competent, so nobody knows how long something should take or to what level of quality. Some very friendly and lovely people around.

Cons

Most people work with no soul here. Your job is to please your manager. The company is heavily influenced by rank and politics. Nobody asks questions in meetings out of fear that they will be fired. Being critical or failing is seen as very negative. This place is a classic big corp "Go to work 9-5" work-place. You will be monitored and surveilled, HR is your enemy. If you are highly competent and want to do great work, don't work here. I'm here now, but actively looking for other things. It's a dreadful place. This is the worst out of 3 software companies I've worked for. And the "great place to work" thing = I have no idea how they got that. Will update if things change. Be careful about interviewing here.

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