Pros
WordAppeal is a young, dynamic company. Project managers are given a lot of responsibility right away and gain plenty of client exposure from the CAC 40. The learning curve here is steep. Expect to work 10-12 hours/day and juggle 4-5 projects. Young project managers who can handle the workload and rub the management the right way can become directors in 4-6 years (though the process is not completely transparent). The 7-step recruitment process is rigorous, so the project managers hired have excellent editorial and social skills. The senior management is great too, with the exception of the CEO who micromanages everybody. In general, people here are all friendly, brilliant and pretty international. Good company culture with weekly "training" lunches, birthday champagne and welcome/departure perks. Benefits: 5 weeks of paid vacation, restaurant tickets, health mutuelle, possibility of performance bonus.
Cons
No RTT, No CE, No work/life balance. Project managers are extremely underpaid. Think 27.000€ starting for francophone project managers and 33.000€ for anglophone project managers. And everyone is paid differently, so NEGOTIATE. People here are overworked. In just 3 months, 6 people (2 of them senior management) have left because they couldn't take the stress and pressure anymore. The HR/Finance management is shitty. Visa deadlines, maternity leave and general adminstrative issues that are a cinch for other companies are difficult matters for the HR/Finance management. Contracts are very "fluid" at WordAppeal, meaning that the company might put you on a CDD before proposing a CDI with an additional 6-month trial period. You might even be put on two CDDs before passing onto a CDI with an additional 6-month trial period. For freelancers (and there are many), there is no written contract stipulating the hourly rate, so you don't know how much you earn in the month until the sum arrives in your account. Absolutely no transparency there! And most people start out freelancing (an unofficial part of the recruiting process) before advancing to the last rounds of the interview process.