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Klaus Schwab
93 Ratings
Pros
"Very reasonable work life balance" (in 15 reviews)
"Good travel opportunities - global meetings are quite stressful but ultimately fun" (in 13 reviews)
Cons
"everything has to follow the chairman, chaotic internal response to covid" (in 10 reviews)
"Overqualified stuff hired for menial jobs (high turnover)" (in 8 reviews)
Pros & Cons are excerpts from user reviews. They are not authored by Glassdoor.
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Learnt a lot of time management and team working skills. The WEF team was wonderful to work with.
Cons
I did not find any cons in my work experience there.
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great people, exciting opportunities to travel, impact-oriented, opportunity to meet high-level constituents and develop relationships with them.
Cons
The organization often does not practice what they preach. Staff are often burnt out, policies are often not clear, and it's an organization that "convenes" people, doesn't often do the work to move projects ahead, but often takes credit for it. People do not stay for long, and it is in most ways a large Family Run Business with all the issues of one.
Continue reading - Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Network, impact and purpose and exposure to cutting-edge trends
Cons
Low pay and less focus on personal development
- Current Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Pros
Amazing colleagues, unparalleled network opportunities, most staff truly motivated by the mission statement to improve the state of the world; opportunities to move around between roles (horizontal movement encouraged)
Cons
Poorly and inefficiently run organization; very relationship based; management by intimidation; atmosphere of fear (esp. in Geneva office); founder and chairman leads organization with iron fist and has surrounded himself by yes-men (average tenure of Managing Board 10+ years)
- Former Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Good travel opportunities Work life balance Smart people to work with
Cons
Poor management at the top Lots of organizational changes If you’re junior, no room to grow really or you’ll be clawing your way up
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Regularly speak with some of the most influential people in the world Work with brilliant colleagues from a variety of backgrounds (pre-COVID) lots of opportunities to travel across the globe Dynamic job with many different day-to-day tasks to keep things interesting Unparalleled networking opportunities, have seen many colleagues go on to take incredible positions found via working here
Cons
Extremely bureaucratic institution where internal promotion ladder is incredibly steep Chairman and managing board hold an enormous amount of power and will often reorganize the entire place with no notice or input from those of us on the ground
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Connections, location, Language, food, weather
Cons
No diversity, No New thinking, Old fashioned, Management style, People
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Great brand name and well known around the world.
Cons
Terrible business model and the worst managers ever. Very, very toxic culture.
Continue reading - Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Tremendous opportunity to change the world for good, and very mission driven environment. Pioneering environment where you can create your projects and execute them.
Cons
management changes direction every 6 months. Extremely hierarchical, limiting opportunity for lower level employees to participate meaningfully with their work at big events. No upward mobility.
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