Exploitative and toxic. - Anyonymous Employee Absolute Internship Employee Review

* The company offers flexibility in both scheduling and work arrangements, allowing employees greater autonomy in how they manage their work. * The role provides opportunities to connect with coworkers who share similar interests, goals, and aspirations, which can make the work feel more engaging and meaningful. * The nature of the work provides opportunities to travel and experience different cultures firsthand, making the role both professionally and personally enriching.

* The workplace culture can feel cliquey and exclusionary at times, with certain individuals exerting a disproportionate influence over the environment. Employees who are not part of these informal circles may feel isolated, unsupported, or unfairly singled out. * Compensation and bonuses are not competitive relative to the workload, responsibilities, and level of commitment expected from employees. * The organization often suffers from poor planning, unclear expectations, and a lack of accountability at the management level. Employees are frequently put in situations where success is difficult due to factors outside their control, only to be held responsible when the predictable outcome falls short of expectations. Rather than addressing the underlying issues, responsibility is often shifted onto employees. * Due to this lack of planning, onsite employees are often left to handle damage control in real time. The proposed “solutions” from management can feel reactive, poorly thought out, or professionally uncomfortable to carry out, leaving employees to represent decisions they had little or no role in making. This can put employees in difficult positions that undermine their professional judgment and credibility. * Management appears to rely heavily on a small group of highly loyal employees who are consistently willing to take on extra work and absorb pressure on behalf of the company. Over time, this can create a culture where overextending yourself is treated as a sign of commitment, rather than a warning sign of poor staffing, planning, or boundaries. This dynamic can lead to burnout and make employees feel that their dedication is being taken for granted rather than genuinely valued. The company’s turnover rate seems to reflect this issue clearly. * The company does not appear to prioritize building strong long-term relationships with seasonal employees or interns. When employees are only valued based on immediate staffing needs, it can leave a lasting negative impression and make them less likely to return in the future, even if the company reaches out again.

Amazing team of young international professionals makes it easy to make friends Hybrid and flexible working model Opportunity to get your start as a young professional with no experience

The seasonality of the job means you will spend 6 months of the year extremely stressed and working much longer hours. Because of the intensity, the turnover is high, other than a few members that have been there a long time. You will see at least a couple people on the verge of mental breakdown every year due to mismanagement, lack of organization and bullying/favoritism from the managers and owners. It is not a sustainable working environment for most people. After many years it’s still a small company so it’s hard to get adequate training and mentorship for skills you will need anywhere other than this company. And there are not many possibilities for significant career growth other than a title change that has you doing basically the same job, plus whatever gets left when someone inevitably quits in a busy period.