Ryanair reviews

3.3

58% would recommend to a friend

(1,919 total reviews)
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Michael O'Leary

55% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Ryanair has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,919 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ryanair employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transporte y logística industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0
Nov 28, 2017
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Pros

I (initially) love my job. I got great experience, I got a great buzz working for a company so well known and respected (or is that feared?) and I got really great exposure to new technologies and teams. I loved the fast environment and working with so many different skill sets and with some nice and interesting people.

Cons

On a personal level, it's hell. You are worked to the bone. I know several who left due to stress, so much stress they didn't even work a notice. There were others, fired on the last day of their 12 month probation. Plenty of people came and went not lasting 6 months. And then some others who quit their jobs to later find jobs because they just couldn't hack it (which is no reflection on them, just a reflection on this terrible environment). There are some awful managers just dying to up their own status and trying to out do others rather than working together. There is no manager training at all and as a result there are some really terrible ones (rude to their team, rude to colleagues and awful people in general). I truly believe O'Leary and some of his underlings are above the law from what I have witnessed. There is no code of ethics at Ryanair. The pay can vary but it's largely less than everyone is really worth. Some people come in on a good wage with bonus or negotiate a decent wage and bonus and those "secret" 5 days extra holidays, but around the business pay and benefits are varied and unfair. It's true you pay 8 euro to use the staff car park a month, there are no pens, there is an expectation you work well into the evenings, if you're invited out for dinner you'll pay for your own. If you bring someone external into the office for a meeting, there are no expenses to allow for you to buy them a coffee (so if someone takes you in and buys you a coffee, note that's straight from their own wages). For anyone who feels they are stuck at Ryanair - you can and will make more money somewhere else working less hours, with perks like free pens(!!), expenses, professional development & formal training and respectful working environments.

3.0
Oct 23, 2018
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Pros

It's quite easy to get hired considering it's aviation

Cons

November 2016 -Expensive Training course which is clearly a legalized fraud (£2300 in total, £300 deducted from your salary every month). -No accommodation, Meals, transportation provided during the training course -No accommodation provided in the initial base where you are sent after passing the course, not even for the first days -Cost of the Uniform deducted from your wage every month, (-£30 per month, for a total of 12 months) -You get paid only when you are flying, during boarding, disembarking, or if there's any delay on the ground you don't earn a single penny. -No meals provided to the crew, not even in the longest flights (e.g. 4 hours 10 minutes to go, 4 hours 40 minutes to come back). All the cabin crew needs to bring their own food and water from home. -In every flights there's an Average Spend target to reach (e.g. £2,50 per passenger on a total of 185 passengers), the cabin manager must push the crew to sell as much as possible in order to achieve the target. A crew member who is not very good at selling may be called to Dublin to attend a meeting in which he/she get intimidated in order to push him to sell more.

1.0
Sep 27, 2018

AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nothing!! I have worked here for a month honestly read this before going to an assessment day

Cons

LIED TO AT EVERY POINT IN THE TRAINING AND THE ASSESSMENT CENTRE, CONTRACT IS NOT WITH RYANAIR AND YOU WILL NEVER GET ONE WITH THEM EITHER, working conditions are diabolical and it’s about time it was looked into, make you sign the contract after your training which may I add if your based in the UK is seasonal so you’ll be told you’ve got to take unpaid leave in the winter was not once told this until signing it, they PAY BELOW minimum wage and when you argue it give you some rubbish excuse you cannot live on the salary £631 a month with £5.80 an hour is shocking!!! No one can live on it and they expect you to live within an hour from the airport! I can’t afford to live on it! They don’t tell you in the winter you’ll get 3 shifts a month yes that’s what my rota looks like with homestandbys all month I’ll just sit depressed all month with nothing to do incase I get a phone call telling me to be at the airport in an hour!! Let alone try and survive on £631 a month ludicrous! To add to this they are laying people off for the winter and still recruiting last time I checked this was against the law! Communication is poor don’t even bother asking a question because no one knows the answer or you’ll never hear anything back! Wouldn’t even bother with a base transfer you’ll get no response either! They have unions they don’t listen too!! You also get given the incentive of 10% of all your sales but you’ll never see any of it as they deduct it saying the bar was down don’t try and argue as you’ll never win. Too much of a sales culture with crew fighting over sales and crew who have been there 10+ years think there superior and will not let you do any duty free as these have all the incentives on them and yet there the ones on double what the rest of the crew are on! ALSO IF YOU OPT FOR THE £700 AT THE END OF TRAINING WHICH YOU WILL NEED THEN MAKE SURE YOU STAY FOR THE YEAR OR THEYLL WANT IT BACK!!!

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