Pros: Good product. One of Europe's leading AI companies. Decent benefits.

Cons: Intransparent leadership, starting with hidden salary bands, continuing with top down decisions that have no room for any feedback or concerns, and finishing with absolutely no transparency when it comes to possible future plans with the company. High employee churn rate with repeated attempts to downsize. Company barely tries to keep its employees, let alone promote them.

Pros: Good people, caring exec, meaningful work and in the current sweet spot of “AI”.

Cons: Immature and lacks process. For a young organisation, the amount of red tape is incredible. Listen to the people who you have brought in externally; you brought them in to help with the scale up stage, so let them!

Pros: The product continues to be excellent, despite everything.

Cons: The company has gone steadily downhill since the (no longer) new Chief People Officer was appointed. Layoffs disguised as performance issues. Engagement scores steadily plummet, with nobody listening. More and more colleagues taking time off sick with stress. Attrition is alarming—Jarek says it's 'industry standard' but he should look more closely at who is leaving: • Principal Engineers • Senior Engineering Managers • ERG Leads • The Culture Programs Lead • Staff Engineers • People who have been champions of DeepL's culture and mission for a very long time and now no longer feel they can work there This is a sign that something is deeply wrong—as is the fact that the German colleagues now feel they need a Betriebsrat to prevent further mistreatment by leadership.