Robert Aebi AG

The flexible work hours, transportation options, parking facilities, and the employee restaurant at the headquarters—which always offers a variety of meals—are all great. In addition, depending on your position, it can be a real advantage to be able to work from different locations and to have the option of working from home for 1–2 days a week.

It has grown into a fairly large and steadily expanding company by now, so I can’t speak for every department. Whether you can still call a company with about 1,400 employees a family business is debatable… but yes, decision-making processes are usually short, and you quickly get a sense of where you stand. However, my impression was that people often make life unnecessarily difficult for one another, and when it comes to suggestions for improvement, they pay less attention to what the actual impact might be and instead tend to let themselves be guided by personal and nostalgic emotions. For me personally, however, the lack of consequences for misconduct and the constant friction between departments became unbearable as time went on.

Very long application process, ambiguous and unclear communication. You had to keep going back and forth.

Tell from the beginning that you cannot be considered for a first round discussion. After 4 weeks I was informed that my candidacy belonged to a "shortlist". After another 5 weeks of silence then the usual HR-CRM generated rejection.Total held out for 9 weeks, but no invitation. Total candidate ghosting.