Dont trust the middle Management - Trust and Safety Investigator Airbnb Employee Review

1.0
12 Jun 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The Idea of sharing accommodation is cool and unique. The Office in Dublin is amazing. The Food is great and the Dog becomes your best friend there

Cons

A great Idea become screwed by hiring incompetent junior middle Management staff who have no Idea how to manage a team. If you are lucky a howl with the Wolf pack your future seems bright, if not you are doomed. One to One Meetings are becoming a real joke, as you don`t have the Opportunity to discuss your performance but rather the Teamlead Orders you how to do things. Useless Workflows in Place which changes anytime without notice, what`s today right is tomorrow wrong and vice versa. If the Teamlead doesn`t like your Face from the beginning you are doomed. Higher Management is completely disconnected from the Staff and they really don`t know what we are doing. Middle Management is completely incompetent to manage Teams and structures effectively. There is no recognition for your hard work or exceptional work or projects rather more a `who cares` mentality is growing instead. Useless and incompetent People are promoted very quickly so far they howl with the Wulfpack

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