Web Summit Reviews

The "largest" tech conference in the world. Yeah, right. Suspicious counting going on for sure and the company will be caught out eventually. The place is a frat house full of lies. Nothing more, nothing less. If you have morals, brains, ambitions - don't waste your time. Jobs here are dead end. The cons in a nutshell are the management. Never experienced anything quite like in all my working life. Don't pay any attention to the good reviews - they are written either by HR or by new starters. There are now around 60 reviews on here - that accounts for around 1/3 of the company and most of the reviews are bad, and the rest are fake. The company response to my review, like with the others, will be a disingenuous "we are shocked and surprised" line, and maybe they are, but more than likely nothing will change their ways. People have tried and failed. The leadership team love this bullying fearful playground of a company. The CEO who shouts at colleagues yet likes to wax lyrical about social issues while sacking people/doesn't renew contracts on a whim. The COO is a bully who is awesome at power-poses and calling women "girls" if he even acknowledges them in the first place. He actively sets unreachable targets so he can fire people for not hitting them.

Recruitment totally overselling positions causes such a huge staff turnover amongst other things. big reason I left Recruitment asking people to write positive reviews on this website to counter the truthful experiences Not being paid a living wage The cost of travelling to events being completely over the daily allowance provided by the company making going to the events something you pay a huge amount for yourself. When you are on such a low wage to start thats something that caused me so much stress. Getting to travel was great, but there were too many bad things about it and the cost was a big one. Witnessing how paddy treated some staff and how everyone tiptoed around his moods if something had gone wrong or not the way he wanted. crazy way to run a company or treat employees, just totally not acceptable. shouting at people is completely unprofessional and dysfunctional and no wonder so many people don't like working for him if he treats people with such little respect Great staff and managers just disappearing because their jobs had been made redundant, whole company operates so weird and one day someones just gone without notice A huge amount of work done by entry level staff goes completely unappreciated, its like a graduate sweatshop pay you pitence have you work insane hours leading up to events so youre totally burnt out mentally and physically then when your salary review happens its like you haven't been working at all and are not given a bonus or reward for your hard work. lots of people work so hard and care lots but you are just worn down further and further by being treated so badly that you eventually leave the company