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      3.3

      62% would recommend to a friend

      (70 total reviews)

      Naman Budhdeo

      68% approve of CEO

      53% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Work/Life balance

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      3.1

      Senior management

      Flight Network has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 70 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Flight Network employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Hotels & Travel Accommodation industry (3.6 stars).

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      70 reviews
      1.0
      Sep 27, 2016

      Chewed me up and spit me out

      Project manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Free lunches , drinks, and you get to learn how to steal money from customers

      Cons

      Extremely poor management. They are blind to their own failures. There is no way that they'll ever dream of being Expedia. Extreme sexism, putting women down and letting them go as soon as they hear rumors of pregnancy. The company does not have any ethics. They need to be shut down. Do not join if you have a sense of self worth. The CTO is a complete disaster. He has mood swings and is quick to blame others. CTO has poor vision of the company and made his buddy the CFO. CFO is extremely racist and has fired 4 minorities.

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      Flight Network Response
      9y
      At Flight Network we pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive environment. We have a large percentage of visible minorities and women across the organization including at the C-suite level. As we continue to globalize, our diverse workforce helps us grasp the increasingly varied needs of customers, who come from a multitude of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and when pursuing talent, we look for the best fit available. We believe that all of our team members are highly skilled and equal to the task at hand. When difficult decisions are made, such as terminating an employee, Flight Network adheres to the Employment Standard Act and the Canadian Human Rights Act, which prohibits terminations based on race, sex, family status, etc. Any suggestion that a particular member of the C-suite is targeting minorities for dismissal is as egregious as it is baseless.
      1.0
      Sep 24, 2016

      There is a light at the end of the tunnel... nah, nothing at all

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Little bit of travel discount, access to travel deals, internal travel info, work boot-camp, you will learn about very dirty travel business and the company will teach you how to deal with enormous amounts of stress very quickly if you are up to some hair raising ordeal.

      Cons

      Leaders are looking for always yes kind of people, surround themselves with always yes kind of people and that completely destroys their listening skills. Everyone who tried to change things seemed to gave up and quit. Lots of shady business practices that discourage of booking travel through the company

      1.0
      Aug 23, 2016

      Poor management, poor communication, no vision or focus

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Salaries are somewhat competitive, recently they are getting snacks for tech. team and few remaining technical team leads are amazingly talented (even though they seem to be leaving one by one). We USED to be able to work from home (as long as our work was not impacted).

      Cons

      Technology powering FlightNetwork is an awful obese dragon with multiple sclerosis and level 5 cancer (yes, level 4 is the max but if there was another level higher, this would be it) - unencrypted credit cards can be openly accessed within company, our UX is from the 90's, "API" systems are broken, buggy beyond belief and leak internal details. At one point, there was even an endpoint that anyone could openly access to get personal details for any registered user. Normally, this would mean lots of better and new things we can do to improve and go forward - but not at FlightNetwork. There's no clear vision/focus/desire to improve and fix broken systems properly - rather just add bandaids and move onto the next project that attempts to try and get more money from customers. There is more focus to implement bait-and-switch-like features that try to trick customers into paying extra fees. Benefits are just awful (compared to the technology industry standard). We've been asking to get proper benefits for developers but they can't/won't because, and the reason given, they are tied to their parent company, Huntington, and that somehow limits them from getting their own benefits package (lazy excuse). Current upper tech. management does not seem to want to innovate with new technologies, are not communicative or transparent, base performance grades and reviews on perception rather than actual deliverables and metrics. New upper management does not want developers to be able to work from home and cares more about where you park (don't get me started on the parking situation) than what work you get done. Complete lack of trust and communication from upper management.

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      Flight Network Response
      9y
      Thank you for your review. We take the feedback seriously and are always working to improve as we grow. We take great pride in our technology and what our team has accomplished and would like to take this opportunity to explain some recent changes. Selling travel online is the biggest e-commerce business on the Internet. It is an extremely complex and competitive business. One of the exciting things at our company is the opportunity we have to create new products in the travel space that provide a unique and great customer experience. There are very few such companies in Canada competing on a global scale in such an exciting industry transforming at such a rapid pace through technology and innovation. Our company has grown by building many such technology products. Our proprietary technology platform grew through the hard work of many people over many years but was becoming steadily more difficult to maintain and scale with our growth. Approximately 2.5 years ago we began a bold initiative to completely rewrite our technology from the ground up in Scala, a new language to the organization, and hired a dedicated team for this project. However, after a full year in development, we realized the development of the new platform could not catch up with the continued development and enhancements on the existing platform. So we changed strategies. Instead of continuing the rewrite, we implemented devops best practices and allocated significant development time to address technical debt. As a result we were able to cut release times from hours to minutes, upgrade to modern OS and dev tools, and scale infrastructure to keep pace with the growth in the business. Unfortunately the dedicated team was impacted and we could have done a better job in communicating the changes when reassigning the team to other initiatives. We continue to invest in clean code, good architecture and operations. A year and a half later, the technology and business results have exceeded our expectations.
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