easyJet reviews

In the People (HR) Team where I worked, the leadership team tend to behave like an elite group. Do not naively assume that you will get a 'hello' them if you pass them in the corridor, as you would be wrong. There were perhaps one or two individual exceptions to this rule. It was disappointing that a group of people who existed to set the standard for the wider team could not get these basics right. Seriously, it takes 2 seconds to smile and say hello. Development in the People Team was absolutely non-existent. Progression in the People Team at Easyjet is down to the loudness of your voice, not your talent. This leads to some very dubious promotions. You will be told that your development is solely down to you to drive, do not expect any support, unless it is the mention of the ever-distant dangling carrot and the many hoops lined up along the way to jump through. The carrot is a mirage by the way, you never get there, as I learned. The hoops exist though. Workload in the People Team at all levels is phenomenal. People deal with this in different ways, I do think you have to be a certain type of person to thrive on it. Being busy is manageable until pressure creeps in, and in that case Management support is hit or miss, you can either be listened to or, on the other hand, interrogated as to why you can't cope (neither of which lead to a solution and probably a 'we'll just have to get on with it' response) . Being low-cost, they will push you as far as they can rather than hire additional resource. I am not sure when that breaking point is, I left before I could find out.

Development has completely disappeared for all but those people who are identified as future leaders. Those people are chosen as the select few are very questionable. The leadership team in the HR team are individually talented but lack any sort of dynamic as a 'team'. They continue to promote people who are ruthless and will trample on anyone to progress. Within the service centre where I worked we had little to no contact with anyone senior and they rarely acknowledged we existed. There was no path to progress out of the centre with externals always hired in for all positions leading to high turnover again and again. The atmosphere in the office can often be tense and workload is utterly unmanageable but it's is accepted that everyone should work long hours to get it done which leads to nearly all the team having poor health - the whole department are always working later than most of the business.