Airbnb Reviews

Pros

Love Airbnb's mission and product. They really value you here.

Cons

Sales is very competitive and stressful, but very high payout in the end if you work hard.

Pros

- great mission for a company - amazing perks and learning opportunities

Cons

- the rapid pace of the company can mean some get left behind - changes are released, and then changed constantly

Advice to Management

Remember to consider keeping up the momentum long term, this is a great initiative, and I would hate to see everyone get burnt out too fast.

Pros

- Great employees - Good benefits

Cons

- Lack of work life balance. GES role, you are expected to work evenings and weekends. Failure to do so results in poor performance results - Low salary - Unrealistic expectations set with limited resources provided to succeed - The leadership team is not aligned and have a limited understanding of the product - Departments are not aligned, everyone has their own agenda - Lack of career development opportunities...

Advice to Management

Invest in your employees and do not expect them to work over-time to succeed. Reevaluate goals and align with the employees to ensure that they are "SMART". Provide them withe the right tools and resources to succeed.

Pros

Great benefits and inclusive environment. A lot of training offered and the chance to share experiences outside of the regular scope of the day to day job.

Cons

Unfair distribution of wages across offices and often disorganized in terms of planning for the future, especially for such an established company.

Advice to Management

Please work to level and pay employees amounts that make sense and are competitive with the head office of the company. Also, please work on communicating major changes ahead of time so not to surprise employees when a major change is made.

Pros

-Great work environment. The offices are great and the people that work there are young and fun - Many benefits such as airbnb credits and more vacation days compared to most north american companies -Great culture and values -Good food - Free gym

Cons

Guest facing roles are under a lot of pressure and face high goals. The systems that are in place often limit us from performing as well as expected and this is rarely taken into consideration. Schedules can be quite inconvenient as well but there is an effort to improve them. Goals tend to be unrealistic and only few can meet them. All in all there is a lot of changes that will on the long term help improve the situation...

Pros

Great insurance, food, shuttle, Airbnb credit. Holiday vacation+ 15 days+ sick days.

Cons

Micro management is terrible, really hard goals to achieve. You will always take your work home if you want to achieve your goals or get to 85% to them. Commission payout is unfair and not clear, when you challenge you have no answer and if you do there is nothing to review, they won’t review your claim. People who are “successful” sellers don’t take more than a week vacation, they are online 24/7 so no life-work balance....

Advice to Management

Your employees are not robots treat them like humans. Answer to them be for them not only when is about a sale.

Pros

Time off, health insurance, free gym, cafeteria, travel credits.

Cons

The Montreal office is terribly mismanaged. Very little focus on managing and mentoring their people. They throw young and inexperienced employees into sink or swim management positions, where they often sink. The Airbnb transition has been particularly rocky for staff, guests and partners. Mismanaged payments, shoehorned new policies, miscommunication from the SF office. Airbnb really demands that you drink the kool-aid,...

Pros

-Great health benefits and time off for maternity/paternity -Annual travel credit on Airbnb -Good training program -Access to brilliant minds -Beautiful office and cutting-edge tools -Supportive HR team that has real power -Stock (real stock, not Stock Options) -Incredible food (not free, but heavily subsidized so that it is affordable) -Time off policies that makes sense for people with families -Shuttle to...

Cons

-Guest-facing work can be exhausting, especially for people new to the industry -Commute can be difficult depending on where one is coming from -Not impossible, but difficult goals to hit (especially in guest-facing roles) -Legacy (pre-acquisition) software and processes, although being phased out, are frustrating to use. -- Nowhere is perfect, but Airbnb is pretty close. There are several old software tools...

Advice to Management

Continue to invest and innovate re: your Employee Experience department. The people who work in that team have made working here (which can be stressful) significantly less so. This place is beginning to feel like "The Montreal Office of Airbnb" as opposed to an amputated business. Keep up what you're doing and continue to innovate. More information sessions on the implications of stock ownership!