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80% would recommend to a friend

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Glenn Fogel

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2.0
Aug 15, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

-work happy hours, lunches -clean, state of the art office -great benefits -interesting travel opportunities for training & hotel visits -international, successful company

Cons

-employees are recognized, but on arbitrary booking records based on seasonal demand, not necessarily performance -very high turnover which goes unaddressed and thereby decreases office morale -lots of closed-door meetings and back-biting -lower pay than competitors -Senior Account Managers play favorites and hire/promote people not necessarily qualified (ie. people without bachelors degrees or revenue management backgrounds) -Ideas and suggestions on process changes are unwelcome

2.0
Jul 30, 2013

Not all it's cracked up to be

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Pros

Easy work, lots of free time to throw balls at each other and goof off and make fun of people. It's like high school all over again.

Cons

Management is pathetic (especially Areas and most Seniors, they can't even use the system themselves in most cases); hard work and intelligence goes unnoticed if they don't like you for whatever reason; promises are a dime a dozen, US management doesn't follow the company culture in any sense of the word; unrealistic goals (who's coming up with this? DO THEY HAVE ANY TYPE OF REVENUE ANALYST BACKGROUND??); did I mention empty promises and crap managers who spend all their time developing themselves and leave the less informed employees to be trained by their colleagues? Oh, and the pay is pathetic.

1.0
Apr 30, 2013

It is a miracle to get a permanent contract

Anonymous employee
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Pros

International company, multicultural with lots of great colleagues from all parts of the world

Cons

It looks like the company is growing because they constantly hire people, but it is only to kick out the ones that after 3 temporary contracts should receive a permanent one (according to the Dutch law). The salary is very, very low, illogical promotions for unskilled people without any experience, bonus target that doesn't deserve even a word commenting it. If you apply for job there and you don't receive any response, this is a "normal" practice, somebody hasn't liked your CV for some reason. If you get a mail after all, it is only to tell you how you are not the right person because there is somebody muuuuch better than you. This is not true, there is somebody who the "team-senior-second team- leader" likes more. They are not giving you a permanent contract and even have the guts to ask you why you're leaving the company?!!! They treat you like a dog, counting on the endless foreigners coming to Holland and ready to give everything in order to work.

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