Don't let the fancy office fool you - Software Engineer Travelstart Employee Review

2.0
May 17, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Nice office - Flexible working hours - The travel industry is a very complex and challenging environment

Cons

- Most of senior management have toxic attitudes and or narcissistic behaviour, and roles often change. Bad leadership with no support structure - Extremely poor communication, lack of transparency and a lot of dishonesty / talking behind others backs - Handled COVID-19 distastefully, leaving employees constantly wondering where they stand. Getting staff to go into voluntary retrenchments at a lower pay out as they don't have money for proper retrenchments. No empathy shown whatsoever. Even staff who were not initially retrenched were so fed up that they opted to rather leave and cut their losses. - CEO wanted to restructure and start from fresh (like a startup) before COVID-19 and I believe he is using this terrible situation to his advantage - If you resign you are treated as if you are no longer worth anything to them, and people often leave before their resignation period is over as they have nothing left to do very early on. Whereas they could be doing more handovers and still bring value to the team. - Blame culture with benefits being revoked overnight including taking away the Foosball and Table Tennis tables, and revoking all work from home arrangements, immature "punishment" - causing a very unpleasant work culture. - People are demotivated and dissatisfied with their jobs, it's easy to see that people are unhappy and most conversations revolve around these topics. - Low increases - Management seems to hire arrogant people as they clearly perform better

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4.0
Nov 6, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It is a really cool company, very fastly growing lots of good people get to work on cool projects among other things

Cons

it is a very informal atmosphere which isn't for everybody, the offices are a big drawback really good people overall though

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4.0
Oct 31, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice office, maybe the nicest in town

Cons

Travelstart is a dynamic and inspiring place to work — great people, innovative spirit, and endless opportunities to grow while making travel simpler for everyone!"

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