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Cheapcaribbean.com Reviews

3.1

48% would recommend to a friend

(132 total reviews)
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Steve Dumaine

67% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

Cheapcaribbean.com has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 132 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cheapcaribbean.com employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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132 reviews
1.0
30 Jan 2014

Bad getting Worse- this change is not good

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Working with my peers and the industry I work in

Cons

This has become most ridiculous place I have ever worked. The place's focus is no longer to be profitable and successful and provide solid career paths for their employees, but to develop a dishonest, manipulative, fake, and counter-productive culture program with horrible execution. Ironically, since the CheapCaribbean.com launched this new culture last year, the senior leadership has lied to the employees, screwed a few employees from agreed/contracted bonus money, made up accusations to displace employees, and promote others that are extremely unqualified for the roles. There used to be a higher opinion of this company; there were things that were not ideal at the company, but it was at least productive and didn't have a hostile feeling throughout. Now, there is zero trust in CEO and senior leadership, and our HR department is a joke, allowing all of this to take place. Plus, continuing to making errors with employees benefits and pay. Recognize that it is the people that work in the four walls that make or break a business, and to lie and cheat them is not operating with honest, integrity, kindness and excellence, which are the guiding principles of our new culture. Give us a true vision and solid leadership, be honest and operate with integrity (saying you have integrity doesn’t make it true), and take care of your employees - do what you say and commit to.

2.0
4 Oct 2014

In a Den of Thieves

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some fine people work there, but overall, a bad melange of opportunistic halfwits.

Cons

Culture of mistrust & exploitation. Nepotism, cronyism and lies. Managers that belittle their employees with impunity. Hostile work environment that trickles down from the top. I watched employees doing the bare minimum thing for fear of drawing attention of mentally unbalanced managers who might be threatened by their initiative.

1.0
23 Sept 2014

Change is tough and the future is uncertain

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are a few real good people at cheapcaribbean.com that put their hearts into the company and are just solid people. The travel industry can be fun and certainly selling vacations to beautiful places should be amazing. If you have time to go yourself. The office space looks nicer with the new paint and cubes.

Cons

Right now cheapcaribbean.com is in a strange place. Our new CEO is, in my opinion, in over his head. His leadership style and tactics are dated and he seems to lean on consultants and past co-workers (now as consultants because they are unemployed) more than using his own intellect and experience. The biggest miss is that he has loyal, knowledgeable, skilled and passionate people right under his nose already working at cheapcaribbean. Many are still trying to weather the ALG merger storm. Today there are more consultants than employees; at least it feels that way. The consultants (we call them the Bob's) are also taking the information the employees are giving them and feeding it back to the CEO as their own ideas or not even trying to do their due diligence to speak to the employees that have the experience and knowledge. Honestly its a real mess. The culture and culture work is a little fake and contrived. Feels like the company is just trying to hold on to some shred of what the culture was formulated to be under past management. Culture is organic and not formulaic. The other major con is the underlying technology platform and the development resources. The system is 10 or so years old with no modern functionality and is extremely limited on areas like mobile, SEO, content management, contract management and pricing flexibility. In my humble opinion, it could be a year and a half or more away when cheapcaribbean sees a modern platform and a CMS to really elevate the business and make the necessary changes many of us have been working towards for years. Underlying it all cheapcaribbean doesn't have the right development skills in house and we cant seem to pick the right vendors or contractors to make positive steps forward (outsourcing to the Ukraine? Really?). A new brand identity and better digital marketing strategy wont fix the tech issues.

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