Southwest Airlines Employee Reviews about "flight benefits"

Cons

I have two cons for this internship. The first being lack of communication from campus reach and our main contacts. they always seemed to be out of office or unable to provide clear responses. They are very busy but for being in charge of this internship they seem to be worried about other things. If they are our main point of contact over these 12 weeks, you think they would be more available. My second con is the lack of full time offers. Don't expect to receive a full time offer especially if you have another year of school left. For how big of a company, they are they don't have a great intern to full time pipeline which is unfortunate. Super hard to get your foot in the door and they won't hold positions for former interns to come back full time. There were a few interns that even graduated during the internship and were eligible to apply but the problem is that there are no open positions.

Cons

Barely any full time slots for when you leave/finish your internship. I ended up as a contract employee after finishing school. No flight benefits and you get treated much differently in the company than when you are internal/non-contract.

Cons

The people can be cut throat. You have to watch your back with co-workers. The kool-aid only flows in Dallas. Its a wonderful job, its the people who are not. No union contracts are making people angry. We are well paid if you are a senior agents, most who have only graduated from high school. We get paid to sit in a breakroom with a tv for half our shifts.

Cons

Moved away from a fully remote role

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There is no growth for minorities. Just look at the top management and you will see the same color, race and gender repeated over and over again.

Cons

Southwest likes to promote average employees from within instead of exceptional talent from outside, which is killing the company. Several people become silo'd in their jobs. No emphasis is placed on education and breadth of experience, rather it is based on longevity with the company. Slow career progression and extremely low pay compared to the industry average for certain skill sets. If you only want flight benefits for casual trips, look elsewhere and earn more to be able to buy a guaranteed ticket.

Cons

You have to give up much of your life for the job with little to no compensation other than overtime pay. What would be considered as a "rewards program" has been stunted to become an electronic way to say, "Thank you" with any kind of bonus or reward handed out by the company directly. Multiple rules and regulations to stunt your advancement or movement within the company leaving you with few options to do so. Union contract negotiations. Mandatory overtime and extensions. The culture is tough as much of the attitude I've come across has been, "Someone else will take care of it". This makes working very tough as this attitude at other locations WILL affect you at any given time. Work load doesn't seem fair at times with some giving more work than others. Union contract gives us the benefit of seniority but with so many rules surrounding that benefit, it can get muddled and difficult to understand at times leaving us feeling as though seniority isn't being followed when it comes to being handed any kind of mandatory overtime.

Cons

Schedule is always changing depending on flight operations

Cons

If you are looking for FTE in Technology this might not be the place to start looking. Outsourcing from Technology seems to be the current plan.