It really depends in which team you work. You just have to be lucky. As in every corporation, it happens that incompetent people are hired and promoted. This is the situation of the Prague Travel team. Once people got promoted to leadership positions (thanks to their seniority in the team), they couldn't be "depromoted". Even though they were proving for more than a year they are just not good for their position. And such people of course promote another incompetent people, so they have their "fan base" that never opposes them. Anybody else that stands out, speaks up, is overproductive or more logical than leaders (the last one is not really a problem) is persecuted. Once you show that you have more experience than your leaders (which is again not really a problem) you are suddenly not wanted. They will often not listen to your ideas or advice, and if they do, they present your ideas as theirs. The philosophy of this team's leaders is to hire very mediocre, average people who just do what they are told to do. That's bad news for people that actually have some brain and maybe even stand out a bit. A good manager/team leader should learn how to work with various people, rather than sending them to HR in order to change their behavior. In addition, how can you be a team leader/manager in this age without knowing basic Excel skills or how to write one email without misspelling and grammar mistakes?
The leadership of Prague Travel team is an embarassment for the whole company. Even though this opinion may have not traveled yet to concerned US management, this sure is a known fact in Prague office. Nobody wants to join this team and they all know why.
So in summary, Concur is a good place to work, but if you have a bad luck and end up in team with incompetent and stubborn leadership that lacks logical thinking, it will negatively affect your opinion about this company. This is a perfect example of saying "people don't leave the job, they leave their managers".
