Great company, but stay out of HR - Anonymous employee Alaska Airlines Employee Review

3.0
Aug 10, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Plenty of opportunities for growth and movement around the company if you work hard and open yourself up to new challenges. Tons of great people to work with. Senior leadership is generally highly trusted.

Cons

As much as people want to work for Alaska, skip the HR jobs. Leadership is a disaster and getting worse. Low morale, low trust and no concrete plans to change things that have been broken for a long time. It's unfortunate that Brad and other senior leaders continue to let this go on.

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Pros

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Cons

Terrible compensation practice. Outdated approach, especially with corporate back office roles. Leaders have zero say in salaries. The compensation team has an outdated approach to pay and are not open to stay with the current market trends and challenging to partner with. There needs to be a willingness to change and align with the local job market. There needs to be an openness to listen to leaders' input. Its hard to hire and hard to attract retain good employees when we are competing with local employers in the Seattle area that offer better pay. It is very challenging to work with a compensation leader and team that do not listen.

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