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European Commission reviews

4.3

88% would recommend to a friend

(842 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 842 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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842 reviews
3.0
Sep 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

relatively good pay, multilingual environment

Cons

no job security as a contracter, if no longer needed you will get no more work no percs like the fixed staff

4.0
Sep 2, 2015

Programme Assistant

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, good working environment, fancy CV achievement

Cons

Far too much bureaucracy, a lot of paper flying around, sometimes very tight deadlines

5.0
Sep 2, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- it's a public administration, so you work for the general interest, not to enrich the shareholders - Great long-term project - International (EU-only) working environment - motivated and angaed colleagues - high professionalism - great sets of skills and competences (sometime underemployed, though) - great work-life balance conditions - good to great salaries for statutory staff

Cons

- it's a public administration, so things can be sometimes slow and very dependent on sometimes unpredictable political decisions - some aspects of its culture are a bit retro (it's not Google...) - the external public would see you as a fat cat on the gravy train

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