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Avantages

Lots of Travel, good salary, lots of different cultures in the workplace

Inconvénients

No personal life, ridiculous team building retreats, values they ram down your throat but can't abide by (management)

Conseils à la direction

Value your team more

Avantages

- Salary (they pay well if you can justify you are worth it) - Lots of travel (whether part of role or as discount vacation) *If you are self centered or bullyish in nature then many more pros open up (although still don't count on job longevity)

Inconvénients

- the importance of "making tough decisions" and showing strong leadership" trumps all logic. Disguised as accountability or performance management, the only real metric that counts is blame and as a manager you have enormous pressure to regularly cut the weakest link in your team. Pushing back is futile. And the values framework to select the weakest link is poor and unjust. - there are...

Conseils à la direction

Advice if considering working here: If you need a job, you will ignore all these reviews and decide it's all disgruntled staff and not all departments or regional offices are like this. That's wrong but hey you need a job. So main advice is to be careful who you trust - especially anyone there longer than 5 years. It takes a very politically minded person to survive here, especially higher up. Also, don't blame your...

Avantages

I worked for GCT as a Program Director/Trip Leader. The culture in the company allowed widespread bullying. When you work for them you are an independent contractor - very convenient, isn't it? They don't cover health insurance, social insurance or anything else. You are always threatened that this could be your last trip if people don't rate you Excellent. You work from 6-7 in the morning until 10-11 at night. No paid...

Inconvénients

the paycheck is very low

Conseils à la direction

treat better your employees.

Avantages

good benefits and company culture

Inconvénients

work hours/ flexibility compensation work weekends

Avantages

Great benefits and open culture.

Inconvénients

Too much favouritism. It's NOTHING but the management team. Horrible is a less word. No Team env. No value for hard works. Juz STAY AWAY

Conseils à la direction

Better get to know who is a great worker and never rely on one.

Avantages

Flexible hours, great location, fun coworkers, good benefits

Inconvénients

Micro management, mandatory over time, long hours, rude customers, extremely stressful

Conseils à la direction

Stop mirco managing! We are doing the best we can with the ridiculous expectations set. Get rid of KRA

Avantages

Great benefits, competitive salary, lots of company perks.

Inconvénients

The owner, Alan Lewis, as many have mentioned here, is completely unhinged, acts like a spoiled child when he doesn’t get his way, his entire leadership program is a complete sham because he himself doesn’t follow it. I worked directly for him and during one exchange because I didn’t have a particular piece of paper he needed, I was subjected to him standing over me his spittle spraying my face. He surrounds himself with...

Conseils à la direction

Stop lying to yourselves.

Avantages

Great management, awesome values, super supportive.

Inconvénients

Nothing. This was the best job I ever had.