Web Summit Reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(157 total reviews)
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Paddy Cosgrave

25% approve of CEO

54% positive business outlook

Web Summit has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 157 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Web Summit 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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157 reviews
5.0
29 Jan 2020

Great people, fun place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Work with great people - Great to work on international events - Learn a lot

Cons

- long hours - limited career progression

1.0
26 Sept 2018

Bananas: HR writes the positive reviews!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The barista and the garden. And few nice people who keep their heads down cos they have bills to pay, which is fair enough.

Cons

The "largest" tech conference in the world. Yeah, right. Suspicious counting going on for sure and the company will be caught out eventually. The place is a frat house full of lies. Nothing more, nothing less. If you have morals, brains, ambitions - don't waste your time. Jobs here are dead end. The cons in a nutshell are the management. Never experienced anything quite like in all my working life. Don't pay any attention to the good reviews - they are written either by HR or by new starters. There are now around 60 reviews on here - that accounts for around 1/3 of the company and most of the reviews are bad, and the rest are fake. The company response to my review, like with the others, will be a disingenuous "we are shocked and surprised" line, and maybe they are, but more than likely nothing will change their ways. People have tried and failed. The leadership team love this bullying fearful playground of a company. The CEO who shouts at colleagues yet likes to wax lyrical about social issues while sacking people/doesn't renew contracts on a whim. The COO is a bully who is awesome at power-poses and calling women "girls" if he even acknowledges them in the first place. He actively sets unreachable targets so he can fire people for not hitting them.

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