Inria Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Inria full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very rich place, you will meet and work with very smart people, from different backgrounds and different places around the world. You'll find teams working on many fields. Flexibility is great at INRIA.

Cons – My opinion it need to be more dynamic.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Inria full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – - Nice easy going environment
- World Wide international employees
- Various collaboration opportunities and international relations
- A wide range of IT research ongoing projects
- Opportunity to work with strong people

Cons – - The overhead of managing paper work might be high
- Possibility to encounter complicated administrative procedures for simple things
- Overall a real nice workplace

Advice to Senior Management – One advice would be to lower the paper work for several potential procedures

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Inria full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – with high quality research in France

Cons – with my passion about speech processing

Current Employee – been working at Inria full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Good people
- Nice environment
- Good salary for Rennes
- Vacation days

Cons – - None, everything is OK

Advice to Senior Management – - None, everything is OK

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Inria full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Very stimulating work environment with highly motivated and capable collegues.
A professional backing that is a great help e.g. travel, administrative affairs, IT, etc.
Little of the bureaucratic overhead endemic to French government establishments.
Many opportunities to work with industry and support for the creation of start-ups by employees.

Cons – Low salary and little career perspectives. This however, is a problem in the entire research community, particularly in France.
Although most of the time English is sufficient, learning French is necessary in the long run.
INRIA does, of course, provide support for those who whish to learn French.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Inria full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – good work environment, good national and international reputation, very good life and work facilities, competitive salary compared to other similar contracts in France.

Cons – -Little intra-team communication.
-Research output of each team depends on a few individials not on the whole team.
-Not much long-term employment opportunities

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Inria full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great environment, delicious food, warm people

Cons – Not everyone speaks good English.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Inria full-time for less than a year

Pros – Reputation, work conditions, international environment.

Cons – Few permanent positions, you are on your own too often

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Inria full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Flexible time, you can almost decide whenever you want to work at home.
Rearly nice.
International environment.

Cons – Sometimes you feel that you need a little more motivation

Former Employee – worked at Inria

Pros – People know english and hence not a problem if you are not french.

Cons – Problem for vegeterians in their cafeteria.
Sophia Antipolis is small town and most of shops will close by 8pm, including public transport.