Each year, our idealo survival insurance supports a climate protection project that offsets 50% of our employees' emissions. For 2023, we've partnered with CarboCert to promote regenerative agriculture, leading to an offset of over 6,000 tons of CO2e. 🌱
To gain a deeper understanding of the project, our co-founder and member of the advisory board Albrecht von Sonntag and some members of our idealo team, alongside SouthPole, a carbon finance consultancy, visited one of the farms involved in th...
“You must be curious and willing to dive into a topic to comprehend it so you can work on it effectively.” Meet Peter Jentsch, Head of Architecture and Software Engineering.
“I joined 11 years ago. idealo gave me a chance to be part of creating a new product, which should establish a growth opportunity for an already successful platform. This was the idealo Direktkauf (“direct purchase”, making it possible to purchase products directly through idealo). While developing it, we had a lot of ...
CSS animations without sacrificing INP? 🎨
In the latest idealo tech blog article, learn how animations were implemented for the idealo website header without negatively affecting the Interaction to Next Paint (INP).
Why does this matter?
Poor INP scores can degrade user experience, especially on mobile devices. The blog post covers the challenges faced and how focusing on the CSS properties ‘transform’ and ‘opacity’ provided a solution. 💻
Read the full article now to learn more 👇
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Strengthening our commitment to fair market conditions and consumer protection. 🙌
We're thrilled to welcome Honey Deihimi as our new Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs. With her deep expertise in European competition and antitrust law, plus years of experience in politics and management, Honey is the perfect fit to help us continue fighting for fair competition and consumer protection in e-commerce.
As the landscape keeps changing, we're more committed than ever to ensuring that o...
“At the end of the day, everyone is happy: our customers, merchants, and idealo.” Meet Andrea Springer-Ferazin, Head of Marketing Tech. 💙
“I joined idealo six years ago, focusing on customer acquisition and retention. We manage the technical marketing channels of idealo – the channels through which we reach potential new or existing customers to make them aware of us and keep using our services. We reach out to them to show them what an excellent service we offer and make them aware that by u...
We sat down with Martin Gerlach, who has been a part of the idealo team for over ten years. Martin started as a Java developer and now works as a software developer and data engineer in the Inventory department.
Read the full story to learn more about what motivates him and the projects he has been involved in. 👉 https://bit.ly/3MkdLr1
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“I’m driven by my fascination with the huge amounts of data we handle at idealo.” 🚀
Meet Martin Gerlach, Senior Software Developer.
“Since joining the company in 2013, I’ve been heavily involved in working with what was then known as “big data,” focusing on data import. I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to the technical aspects and influence decision-making processes.
What my team and I have been doing over the last few years is quite significant. We enabled inventory analytics...
New/old addition to the management team. 🙌
We’re welcoming back Martin Sinner, co-founder of idealo, as our new co-CEO, joining the idealo management team consisting of co-CEOs Maxim Nohroudi and Jörn Rehse.
Co-founder Albrecht von Sonntag will join the Advisory Board of idealo and focus on the creation of fair and transparent market regulations in European e-commerce and the enforcement of idealo's interests within the framework of the Digital Markets Act.
As part of idealo’s founding ...
Last week we celebrated our 6th idealo Collaboration Day! 🎉✨
It was an all-round successful day, and it was wonderful to reconnect with so many idealos in person, which was one of the intentions we had when we created the concept of Collaboration Days: opportunities for all idealos to get together, network, learn and share ideas.
The theme of this year's Collaboration Day was "For our customers". That's why we invited idealo users to share their experiences with us.
Curious about what ...
We are happy to present our third idealo sustainability report to you today! 🌱
As a company, we aim to establish an environment that encourages responsible consumption, climate protection, and social engagement. We are committed to promoting these values for our customers and as an employer for our employees. 💚
In this report for 2023, you will gain insights into our projects, changes, as well as the milestones we’ve reached in the areas of Climate & Environment, People, Society, and Pro...
