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European Commission reviews

4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

(843 total reviews)
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Ursula von der Leyen

76% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

European Commission has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 843 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The European Commission employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Regierung & öffentliche Verwaltung industry (3.6 stars).

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843 reviews
1.0
Jul 5, 2017

Software developer: embarrassing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Money, no stress, vacations, multicultural environment, only English needed, easy to make friends, good flextime (at least in my case)

Cons

If you really care about your career, simply stay away from institutions: the way of working is insane considering the amount of money they spend. There is almost everywhere spaghetti code without any real possibility of improving the situation in decent times. On average, developers are bad, tools are inappropriate, technologies are often obsolete. There aren't designers or UIX experts: the applications are often ugly. Forget about mobile. On average, managers (paid at least 5k per month) are embarrassing. Mindset is the worst thing: people really think that this situation is common everywhere.

4.0
Jul 1, 2017

Joint Research Center

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very nice 3-years working experience. Perfect work/time balance, with very good salary. Amazing experience with colleagues, all of them very good scientists of high standards.

Cons

no long-term perspectives. no long-term vision of work activities planning

4.0
Jun 30, 2017

Service desk agent

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- oportunity to talk to new people every day - learning a bit of everything - 3 shifts- if lucky you can change shifts with a colleague - weekly and monthly statistics - you can see how much work have you done and compare to others

Cons

Sometimes colleagues put all the work on your shoulders- they just sit in front of their computer and do nothing..or pretending to do something. The lunch break takes more than 1 hour. They put medical leave with no sense... as they can have 2 days without justification. Depends on collegues it can be a bad environment.

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