VisitScotland Reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(61 total reviews)

Malcolm Roughead

92% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

VisitScotland has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 61 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The VisitScotland employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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61 reviews
1.0
1 Oct 2014

Frustrating

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Excellent career progression opportunities (pro/con due to high staff turnover), great diversity throughout the company, flexible working hours and good holidays. Good personal development and learning & development opportunities. The only thing that's kept me here (for now) - the opportunity to promote a stunningly beautiful "product" - Scotland.

Cons

There is a constant sense of frustration throughout the company due to an absolute lack of management and decision making from senior level (heads of department & directors), with zero consideration for the people who will ultimately end up having to implement their bad or last-minute decisions. People aren't empowered to think creatively and take calculated risks in their job which leads to the same thing being done year after year despite the rest of the world having moved on 10 years ago. This creates a great sense of tension in the company and ultimately a lot of conflict within teams and between other teams for those people who want to do things differently and those who are afraid to. Extremely high staff turnover as people move around teams thinking the grass would be greener on the other side but then find out it's not and end up leaving. Staff are also overworked and underpaid. 3 month notice period makes it difficult to leave.

1.0
9 May 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great work / life balance. Brilliant if you've got family and / or other commitments. Lots of flexibility and good pension / childcare benefits.

Cons

It's. So. Painfully. Slow. And. Very. Frustrating. Nothing really happens, and the things that do happen don't happen very quickly. Senior Management are very slow to make decisions. Too many personal politics going on between HODs. Was once told I couldn't change a process to save days of work because I would hurt someone's feelings.

3.0
8 Feb 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good annual leave entitlement, nice colleagues and a decent understanding direct manager

Cons

Where do I start?! cherry picked members of staff move around roles without being advertised, job titles created for people liked by senior management, there are more managers, heads of, directors of in this organisation than in any much bigger worldwide company, you can tell this is a public funded one.

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