G Adventures Reviews

Pros

- wonderful people - interesting office space with nice meeting rooms

Cons

- had good company culture but it was mostly a facade - projects are done with the "throw it at the wall and see if it sticks" mentality - management doesn't plan ahead and are operate on a more reactionary mode

Pros

- G’s culture fit process leads to hiring some of the kindest people you've ever met, it wasn’t just a handful of nice people here and there, that was the majority of employees - Toronto Base Camp location and office featured some fun designs (Steve Jobs, Alice in Wonderland, Star Wars, and Stan Lee meeting rooms) - Chances to meet people from all over the world - Opportunities to work on a range of projects and collaborate with other departments - The culture was shifting to be more inclusive - Efforts were improving to try to keep everyone connected and in the loop - Use of mac products and great IT support for when issues arose - Trips were unique and gave back to communities, animal, child, and Indigenous welfare was protected - Office management and front desk staff were wonderful and extremely hard-working, office was always tidy, with stocked snacks or treats, fun playlists created a warm and welcoming office environment - Access to learning programs and LinkedIn Learning - Development programs like leadership camp - While there were often times you had to work late to handle workload it was not a culture of "you need to be doing this" in our office, I never felt pressured by leadership to work late, only by my workload

Cons

- Inexperienced hires were legacy issues – many employees knew the travel industry but were clueless about their roles and how to perform their duties (Potential marketing candidates beware, this is rampant. Get ready to argue Marketing 101 and explain what a CTA is daily) - The structure was a disorganized mess and it caused multiple roadblocks daily - decentralization for marketing forced experienced digital, web design, and advertising professionals to report to leadership that only understood travel, creating a constant power struggle that lead to weak executions - Overall lack of strategy and process - no training, support for onboarding efforts or employees in various offices - The huge disconnect between BPT’s vision for the company and what leadership team executed - Lack of upward mobility – the company strived to create elaborate programs that celebrated lateral moves with a lot of glitter covering obvious shortcomings - Low salaries supplemented with travel perks and average benefits. This was making hiring increasingly difficult, losing many talented individuals who wanted to start families or you know, pay their rent - Culture couldn’t keep up with the times, what was once forward-thinking was never updated and company hung their hat on their original efforts - Understandably, COVID battered the travel industry and G was no exception, but the damage hit hard and fast. No transparency or support for suddenly laid-off employees. Core values were thrown out the window. While the situation was unprecedented, if the core values had been upheld in how it was handled I think people would have felt like G cared. Little actions like compassionate emails, or helping recover files, or resume help would have been well-received.

Pros

Friendly Community, Career Growth,

Cons

Low Pay, Expected to work changing shifts every week,

Pros

-There was a very solid culture prior to COVID-19 -Felt like we were working for a product and company with a purpose -Used to genuinely care about my team -Team was invested in their work and the company

Cons

-The company has consistently bungled it's handling of staff reductions and internal communications in the wake of COVID-19 -The "Core Values" preached by the company go out the window as soon as they need to save money. People have come secondary to saving a few dollars. -A total lack of vision from leadership for what's to come next -Questionable decision after questionable decision is being made with no explanation, and the only rationale seems to be they favour those who were most integrated in the culture before the pandemic -Team managers not consulted on staffing decisions about those teams -The company widely shared a "Best workplace" award externally and internally days after laying off staff -Pre Covid-19: same feedback that pay does not match outside travel industry (maybe even inside?) and no one cares if you take snack cart away

Pros

Free trip and free swag

Cons

Basically a cult Salary is below average, they pay you with free hot dogs and hair cuts

Pros

- The employees and general staff were fantastic. Some of the nicest and most interesting people I've ever worked. - Nice perks, such as free food and drinks.

Cons

It's easy for a company seem great when business is growing steadily, but when times are tough is when companies show their true makings. Unfortunately, COVID19 lifted the shiny purple exterior of G and fully exposed the rusty badly welded framework below. - Company does not appear to follow it's own core values structure - Vendors report not being paid on time, or sometimes at all. - Pay is much lower than industry average. The perks do not make up for the lack of pay. - No environmental initiatives despite the companies public and private disclaimers saying that they do. - Appeared to be little to no effort by upper management or CEO to retain employment of employees once the COVID19 pandemic hit. Legally, it is questionable how they approached the mass layoffs. - Most companies in Canada are eligible for programs to help keep their staff afloat during the pandemic. G either did not have the foresight to apply for the programs and did not receive these funds, or they have (possibly) misappropriated government, tax payer money, for different opportunities. - CEO Bruce Poon Tip seems more concerned with his outside image than anything else. Choosing to write new ageism books in times where proper leadership is desperately needed. Leadership should take active care of the their employees, vendors, and clients. - Employees are more actively rewarded for praise of current condition, rather than positively challenging status quo. - Overall extreme shortsightedness and mismanagement.

Pros

Lots of great people to hang with. Lots of energy spent on culture.

Cons

Senior Management is not aligned. No common purpose despite there being significant effort placed in to core values. Silos are very much in effect and this needs to be rectified for G to truly be recognized as a great place to work. Beer fridges and snack carts are simply window-dressing.