- company culture TOO relaxed sometimes: it feels a lot like a high school with "the cool kids", "the new kids" etc. Many unprofessional relationships between colleagues as well which of course leads to less objectivity in the working environment
- some people (not the developers though) have management/leading positions even though they are quite incompetent and unqualified, they do not really know what they are doing and are thus harming the entire team or even the company´s image (eg by straight out embarassing marketing campaigns for other countries)
- a general danger: the company should attach more importance to the quality of its products and services than its image and impression on the media/people outside of the company, many projects get cancelled because quality was severly lacking and/or because so-called "managers" just did not listen to their team
- give real tasks and a certain kind of responsability to your student helpers, they are just sitting around, ready and willing to help, but you tend to give them nothing to do FOR MONTHS or even refuse to talk to them at all like they belong to a second class of people
- the team building activities are not for everyone, but only for selected people (interns, student helpers, or non-permanent employees do not get to participate in everything)
- many interns, especially in recruitment, get exploited, they have a significantly higher workload than some full-time employees but have to live with the uncertainty of non-permanent contracts which might or might not be extended - for another contract for only 6 months
- the internal feedback system (everyone gives feedback to someone about their colleagues) is a nice idea, but tends to get abused for gossip, childish/ridiculous feedback, or just unfair and never heard before criticism. If someone has a problem, it would make so much more sense to address this directly with your colleagues instead of collecting evidence and complaining to someone else
