5 stars if you're French, 1 star if you are not - Programmer Manager INSEAD Employee Review

1.0
2 Aug 2021
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Pros

If you are French and working on the INSEAD Fontainebleau campus you can do as much or as little as you like! You can go on sick leave for years and still get paid, take 100 days holiday a year and dump all your work on colleagues in Singapore, say no to a pay cut when Singapore colleagues have a 8% reduction, get paid to stay at home - and you'll never be fired! Some people stay at INSEAD France for 20, 30, 40 years as it is a paradise for them!

Cons

If you work on Singapore campus expect to have to cover for your French colleagues who are on sick leave or "sabbatical" half of the year at least. Also they like to go on 4-5 week holidays in the summer and dump their work on you before they leave. You will also work Christmas while the French enjoy another mandatory holiday. You will be told that INSEAD is a "Business School for the World" but all promotions will go to the French, meetings will take place in French, and you will work 80 hours a week because the precious French need their work-life balance. Your team will be punished and dismissed while your French manager goes on sick leave for 5 years and comes back to a pay rise.

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