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Decent Pay, Terrible Atmosphere - Anonymous employee Cheapflights.com Employee Review

2.0
Feb 19, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the lower level employees are highly knowledgeable and passionate about their jobs, and working with them is a real pleasure. And the above average salaries (in most departments) are not to be balked at.

Cons

Senior management seem to have little idea about strategy or company positioning let alone the rapid pace of change in the online world. Their coping strategy seems to be to dump on the people below them with frequent shouting and threats. There is also very little trust in the ability of their team, which often leads to managers overruling an expert's decision, at times with disastrous results. The pace of change would make a snail look like a sprinter and the overall morale is quite low. Far from a "start-up" as it is sometimes described, this is a small company acting as if it was a large multi-national. And doing it quite badly.

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5.0
Jan 13, 2025
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jan 29, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- 22 days off a year and work from home options - Bagel Mondays really do make Monday more bearable - Pleasant people - Great salary (though they've had an investment and are going lean and mean, so this may stop)

Cons

- Too many meetings, I suggest making them standing up! - Little communication between departments - No brand to speak of in the U.S. b/c they've neglected it - Slow to react or adopt new technology/ tools that could/would help their teams - Little to no culture in the U.S. Office (the UK office buzzes with productivity, life and young blood -- total opposite in U.S.) - Layers upon layers of inefficiency-- which they are working on reducing (while killing morale) - The distinct feeling that some people are just hiding there and "getting by" - Don't expect a laptop or even a stocked stationary shelf.

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