Hopefully, you land on a team where senior management treats you like a person & not a workhorse but here are some things to consider based on my experience (NY office):
- Work/Life Balance: depending on the department you're in, expect burnout within a couple of months. PTO is available (if you've accrued enough time), but it's the typical situation of 'having a lot of work, but we're short-staffed and no one else can cover, so I'll take PTO knowing I'll still have to work during my time off.'
- Short-staffed: Part of the long hours is due to several departments experiencing turnover. It might be different now, but during my time each team was dealing with this.
- Ego-Driven: HelloFresh's culture emphasizes an "ego-less" environment, but maybe these values are not meant to be applied to senior management.
- Company Culture: HelloFresh is a very large brand so cultivating a company culture that expands across all offices is going to be difficult, but the culture at the NY office is very much "grind culture" & "bro culture" (but again, this likely depends on the team you join.)
- The success of HelloFresh would be nothing without all of the hard work from the warehouse employees. Witnessing a company go through the motions of union-busting practices was extremely offputting & actually pretty depressing.
