Pros
- Very elegant working facilities - Networking with companies CEOs, public authorities, etc - Salary - and free coffee all day long - status
Cons
- Very competitive and political environment - Positions given away on the basis of friendships and political favours rather than on competencies - lack of transparency in the decision making process - Rigid working environment. In other words, you cannot really participate in other projects apart from your official activities - you basically have to convince companies to pay a 150.000 CH fee to have a "chair" at the WEF conferences. Honestly, an 5bl US dollars companies does not need the WEF for networking, they only need to pick up their phones or send an email. - In sum, they WEF is basically a chatty room where powerful people get together to talk. Your work will be in bringing in these people, no more, no less. If you really want to improve the "state of the world", go work somewhere else, as I did.
