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People are great, but company cares only about business and profit. Bad for mental health

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Klarna for 4 years
June 2, 2024
Stockholm, Stockholm
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  • Full of smart, dedicated, and hard-working people. You learn many things from each other. Great people who are young and energetic.
  • Diversity & Inclusion - you'll find people from every corner of the world. It's one of the best examples of a multi-cultural company if you want to experience that, and where you're welcomed regardless of your background.
Cons
  • Too much work, but can't get work done within work hours because of too much meetings and alignment needed on every level. It's an open secret here.

  • Very business-oriented yet marketed highly as "customer-obsessed". Focused mostly on business impact: making money and saving money, every little work is focussed on $ and nothing else. Very less care for employee/customers regardless of how you sell it.

  • The "RIGHT NOW culture" - Not very good for mental health, since stress and pressure is too high and due to almost unrealistic expectations that everyone need things "right now", and people work hard and do deliver things as best as they can. But for sure due to scale and demand, incidents happen, and we solve it. Work late nights, weekends however you can.

Advice to Management

Ask yourself: are you really solving any real problems for customers? Or are you just obsessed with making more money for the business? Think of customers as not mere numbers in your chart, but as human beings.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
2.0
Culture and Values
2.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
5.0
Career Opportunities
3.0
Compensation and Benefits
2.0
Senior Management
2.0

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