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IMD - International Institute for Management Development Reviews

3.1

44% would recommend to a friend

(100 total reviews)
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David Bach

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44% positive business outlook

IMD - International Institute for Management Development has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 100 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IMD - International Institute for Management Development employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
20 Jun 2026
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Pros

The work can be genuinely interesting

Cons

For a business school, the management and culture is staggering. It's highly political with people willing to undergo extremely unethical behavior to advance their careers, and the general approach to management dehumanises employees. Working here has been extremely bad for my mental health.

1.0
30 Oct 2023
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Pros

Diversity, restaurant, infrastracture, OK salaries

Cons

Toxic culture, zero meritocracy, dozens of heads of something getting there after years of bad performance, without being questioned once, due to the protection they get from chiefs of something. Ridiculous performance, disgusting leadership and broken processes are the recipe for golden bonuses. They compensate all this insanity with free yoga courses and stress management sprints (where none of the staff’s feedback is ever taken into account), instead of educating people before promoting them. HR doesn’t face issues at their root, they try to merely cover symptoms. They’re there just for the salary themselves, no accountability, no sense of responsibility, they’re highly submissive. The company burns people out with style. Don’t accept any specialist position.

2.0
30 Jun 2023

Looked like a dream company, ended up a nightmare

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Great location - Great employee benefits (though decreasing) - Amazing N+1, micro-management free - Had the chance to interact with some world-class specialists in their field - Above average salary - Good Work/Life balance

Cons

- Complete disconnection in between the C-levels and the reality of the market - Several incompetent "head of" and managers that the board will never challenge due to cronyism - Constant internal power/political war. By far the most political company I worked for - Most departments are working in silos and hate working with each other - Green and pink washing overall - Boomer mindset, old white male know it all - Discovering a colleague is on sick leave due to burnout is another Tuesday... total HR mismanagement - Hard to understand how such a decaying company is still so successful; they are very lucky

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