Pros
Working for a big company. Meeting nice colleagues from different backgrounds. Learning how to work under stressful conditions and multitask. 3 Days off in a row every week.
Cons
Lowest salary in the country. Demanding job with no rewards. Dealing with many drunk and uneducated customers. Rude managers and supervisors. No support, compassion or understanding from other departments (especially rostering). No free food or water for own employees, rather then giving you food they tell you to throw it in the bins after the working shift(not kidding). Extra hours not paid. On the earliest shift you'll be rostered and need to wake up at 03.00 am and will occasionally finish to work at 1700 and the same cycle the day after. They don't pay for your winter jacket and send you in some countries where is really cold demanding you to put on just a blazer and a light raincoat. The delivery for the winter jacket takes about 1 month and meanwhile you need to deal with the cold somehow. You are requested to complete many long elearnings and no compensation is given. To get a base transfer you need to be extremely lucky and NOBODY tells you the requirements to get it. You might be in the company for 10 or more years and not given your requested base, then Ryanair hires new people and send them in the bases that you asked for 10 years ago;this is just broken,not meritocratic or fair whatsoever. You'll be asked to take a month of unpaid leave in the winter time which means you'll be left with no money in your pockets during that time. This is the only company in the world that doesn't allow swaps and instead of paying you for sick days ,they deduct money from your salary like they are not paying you a miserable enough salary. Ryanair doesn't have cleaners coming on board after each flight,so you will need to clean the cabins and toilets after each flight. You'll be trained to save lives but the majority of the time you'll be serving food and cold or hot drinks to people and pilots. You'll also be required to sell scratch cards or perfumes. If some customers are harassing or abusing you or doing anything against the rules ,you should be able to offload them but only if you convince the pilots first and let me tell you, pilots are not always accommodating or empathetic. The majority of the customers is extremely rude and demanding. Sometime it feels like they don't know they're flying on the cheapest airline with the lowest paid employees and can't expect 5 star luxury service. There is a reason why everyone is leaving this Company and they keep hiring new people from countries with a difficult job situation. 95% of cabin crews leaves the company within 1 year, the remaining 4% stays two or three years , 1% stays longer than that(this number goes higher if you're given your country base of course). I could have much more to say but it'd take me a month to finish it so I'll stop here. The pros are just not enough to compensate the cons.