Pros
- Lunch and fruit provided - Monthly outing where you have free drinks for two hours. - The international atmosphere. - Possibility to do overtime from time to time. - Discounts in your reservations.
Cons
- Medium and high management positions are given to English people in a huge percentage. The favouritism there is so obvious that is extremely upsetting and frustrating. Specially because the international staff are highly qualified (and of course, all of them are bilingual, whilst the English colleagues aren't) and some of them went from high school to Booking. This creates a negative and irritating experience for the foreigners. Talent, diplomas, international experience, etc are all wasted because you don't have the right nationality. At some point, we did even had a regional manager visiting the office to see why this was happening, and after this visit "what a coincidence", foreign colleagues were promoted. - Bullying, harassment, xenophobia, degrading people in monthly meetings, etc unfortunately happens but management bury their heads in the sand and they never see anything. This applies of course only of the wrongdoer is English or friends with the management. None can touch you then. - Another big issue is micromanagement. If they ever want you out, they will start a proper witch hunt and you'll be gone. Fact. - Hypocritical HR department who claims they are there to help, but it's quite the opposite. If you get too "problematic" with your requests or get sick quite often, then they'll try to get rid of you, one way or another. They will take advantage of the fact foreign people don't necessarily know all their rights in the workplace. One HR associates has confessed in her previous job the role was about retention, whereas in this company it is actually how to get rid of unwanted people. - Targets are unrealistic, putting employees under unbearable stress that brings about illnesses of all sorts. - There's a maximum amount of time that you are given for toilet breaks. There will be questions asked if you go over this amount. - You can get sacked for being late a couple of minutes, but they still employ a team leader that touched inappropriately a female colleague at a work do. Need to say more?