Carlson Wagonlit Reviews

Pros

Lots of opportunity to make an impact every day.

Cons

Need to be a self-starter. Not a lot of hand-holding or mentoring opportunities available.

Advice to Senior Management

Emphasize technology as a core competence of the organization in addition to travel booking and management.

Pros

The benifits at Carlson Wagonlit are not all that bad and the co-workers are great to work with. Overall the company was not that bad.

Cons

I got a job offer from another company that paid more than what I was making at Carlson Wagonlit, they would not match to keep me there even though I had 7 years with their company.

Advice to Senior Management

Personally my boss was excellent and I loved working with her, however when she left we where stuck with an awful person.

Pros

Good benefits, vacation, medical, and dental.

Cons

Medical expensive for employee cost

Pros

The work environment of the Paris Global HQ office is friendly, collaborative and very multicultural. The company is well managed and the leadership is relatively accessible and most of them do a good job of modeling the stated values. Overall a pretty good place to work.

Cons

Compensation is below average if you are not one of the top 80 managers. The work can be very repetitive and boring (at least mine can be). The office is set up as an open space which makes concentration difficult and distrations frequent. Lots of overtime is required and management does not acknowledge that they require it--their position is that if I were better organized, I would not need to work so many extra hours. And lastly, the shadow side of the friendly, collaborative ambiance is that there is lots of gossip and rumor.

Pros

No more than 40 hours per week

Cons

Promotions are few and far between

Pros

Great Place to work - ethical - good to employees and clients - Good work - life balance

Cons

Hard to move up in the company or increase compensation

Advice to Senior Management

Offer more opportunity for advancement of current staff

Pros

Lots of women in management. Lots of home-office opportunities. Great cross-pollination of ideas.

Cons

Oddly, employees don't get any spiffy travel discounts.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep up the great work; really enjoy the Leadership Summits--very very informative. Keep going global and investing in global platforms. It is paying off.

Pros

Decent pay and flexible work schedules. Travel benefits for management.

Cons

More of a political organization vs. a company that prides itself on performance. In other words it is more important that you are politically aligned than if you do a great job.

Advice to Senior Management

You can be much more profitable and successful by eliminating the political managers who are wasting company money, keeping their friends around who don't work hard, and pushing out the hard workers.

Pros

Flexibility and managegment are great

Cons

Tough industry to work in

Advice to Senior Management

People are what make the company go.

Pros

Good people; great busines plan

Cons

Too many silos -- one dept doesn't always know what the other dept is doing or how it affects them

Advice to Senior Management

Remove some of the silos and focus on the core services