"Work at Zalando happens in small, dynamic teams. Openness and idea exchange are not only encouraged, they're lived. Collaboration extends beyond your immediate team as we pull together across functions, locations, and management levels to achieve shared goals. Collaboration is at the heart of Zalando. Influence. Inspire."

"We'd all come off of a long week where our focus was diverted from the project we were working on to a more urgent high-priority effort. We all finished that, but then had to return to our previous effort, and had to regain our momentum there and get it done before our end-of-day deadline. At this point, the team had lost their steam. So, I bought some donuts to give everyone a burst of energy via a sugar rush, put on some fun and motivating music, and ramped up the positive energy to get everyone elevated again. I made coffee, passed it around, and cheered everyone on, setting the pace to get it done. Soon morale was raised, and everyone gathered up enough energy for the final push, and we came in ahead of the deadline. As a reward, our manager let us all clock off early that day, which proved a great beginning to a long weekend."