Bewertungen für ResearchGate

Pros

Flexible Arbeitszeiten und interessante Aufgaben.

Kontras

Längere Verträge bestehen nicht. Immer befristet

Pros

The product is great and supports scientists.

Kontras

Even as a Senior I was constantly exposed to micromanagement, and I was pushed to micromanage colleagues. VP level execs were constantly interfering with daily routine tasks. lacked trust in their employees and enforcing their opinion onto the experts for the job. There was no company or product strategy but opinionated C- and VP-Levels. The working culture encourages mobbing while team leads lacked any social or conflict moderating skills in that regard. People got fired on the very last day of probation, female colleagues were quitting jobs because they felt exposed to sexist mansplaining, there was a general vibe of I tell you what to do instead of hiring experts to perfrom expertise. The worst place I've ever been working at.

Pros

+ care for people: regular 1:1 meetings, mobile work policy (Germany + travel), mental health support + professional growth: quarterly development talks, a level-based career framework for both engineers and managers with a range of specializations, dedicated development budget, mentoring, internal team & role changes supported + a meaningful mission: supporting scientists around the world + great team and leadership: a bunch of nice, professional and dedicated people who work together and share knowledge regularly, open communications, option for anonymous feedback to leadership, transparent business operations & decisions + work/life balance: low stress-environment, fair treatment, no regular overtimes or pings outside of work hours, lots of parents work here

Kontras

- patience needed: some decisions can take time. Usually it's for a good reason, e.g. to ensure the solutions & policies are fair and compliant with all regulation - but sometimes it's quite annoying to wait for that turnaround - policies: A lot is managed through policies & budgets. On the one hand that means equal and predictable treatment - certainly a plus! But it also limits flexibility which can be frustrating sometimes.

Pros

Lovely colleagues, good mission, interesting field to work in

Kontras

Unhealthy envrionment that trickles down from the top. Especially if you're a woman you should reconsider working here - ResearchGate has a boys club culture and bad behavior is rife. Also not much chance for career progression

Pros

I liked working at ResearchGate. I started in a really junior role and then was offered more responsibility. I was there for 4 years and progressed in my role to Team Lead. The people at ResearchGate were really nice. They really supported my development and gave me lots of opportunity. I left because I had gotten to the most senior position in my area and really wanted to get experience in a different area of what I do. The remote working is really good - much better than other Berlin companies. You don't have to go into the office at all if you don't want, but if you do want to then you can. And you don't have to go on particular days - it's really flexible.

Kontras

For non-EU citizens there isn't as much flexibility on working outside of Germany but they are working on it and also they will help people to work out where else they can work based on their specific visa so they are trying.

Pros

- Regular working hours - A few good people remain there and deserve recognition

Kontras

There's a culture of fear and silence coming from the top. Psychologically unsafe and tons of office politics. Very little enablement or career development support for most. A large amount of people quit within Q4 2021 and Q1 2022.

Pros

The mission at the core of our work also attracts really good natured people throughout the org with a strong ethical core to how they approach their work. Commitment to multi-disciplinary product discovery, bringing together product, design, analytics, user research, engineering and advocating for the Researcher and our Customers as we tackle ambitious problems to advance scientific researchers. As a product manager, I'm blown away by the level of the senior folks in research and design who are embedded into product teams. There's an excellent emphasis on the process of product discovery being equally important to the process of product delivery. The Engineering team has taken on ambitious goals to continue to innovate. And the company is embracing the latest in data science, including ML/NLP topics I am very interested in leveraging in products that we build. On the commercial side, we are really hitting our stride and the numbers back this up. It's fantastic to see a maturing sales operations organization and some really talented commercial leaders coming in. In terms of culture, I feel confident that from the top down, people believe in work-life balance and flexible working. The company has embraced and adapted to remote work. I can see myself working here for a long time with interesting challenges without burning out.

Kontras

Personally as a non-EU worker, the limitation on having to work from within Germany is a bummer, but it's my understanding that this is being worked on. With a company history that goes back to 2008, there's a lot of legacy code or legacy product strategies to either maintain or retire. It feels like there's a fresh energy around changing this, though. In terms of compensation, it's certainly not the top of market. Though we have heard that they are looking at addressing this, perhaps to react to the changing market and inflation.

Pros

great people and teams committed to remote work but also providing an office great and important mission great work-life balance supportive management

Kontras

things move very slow, but they are moving at least no clear long term plan, each quarter or at least each year you can expect some major change in the plan (which also contributed to the slowness) too small team for all the things that need to be done

Pros

Awesome company full of nice and professional people. A great place to learn

Kontras

Currently is mosltly online work and that does not allow to meet people in person. I hope this change in a short time

Pros

growth opportunities and talented colleagues

Kontras

constant internal rumors and unjustified contract terminations