Worldstrides Employee Reviews
Out of 102 Worldstrides employee reviews, 70% were positive. The remaining 30% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Worldstrides improve their work culture. The Operations team, with 93% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Worldstrides compared to all other departments at the company.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Very understanding and willing to work with you!
The food that they bring is nice but other than that theres nothing redeeming about them
We have some really strong leaders, but they are becoming less effective as the CEO has become such a prevalent topic in meetings. Their are still a number of great people who are passionate about the company.
Review from Operations Dept
The executive leadership team is only concerned about white knuckling their tiny bit of power so they can exercise it over everyone "beneath" them. The loop is "we want your feedback, we're open to suggestion!" but they ignore everything that comes from below executive level.
The leadership team lacks emotional intelligence and the capacity to care about their employees. There is nothing I like about executive leadership. My personal leadership team is great but they also struggle against executive leadership.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Travel should be about providing wonderful experiences for the client but more often profit is the metric they wantis
Listening and giving employees autonomy
Listening to and activg on employee feedback
Lining their own pockets with cash.
Lining their pockets and protecting their own little internal kingdoms.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Medcal is better than other places I've been. PTO allocations are FAR better than many other places.
LIFE INSURANCE, HEALTH INSURANCE, REFERRAL BONUS
Review from Operations Dept
The private insurance they offer that I can extend to my kid. Please note that I work in a remote office out of the US, this may vary for my Americans co-workers.
Review from Operations Dept
Fair pay, good benefit selection, great time off.
Review from Operations Dept
Good benefit choices and great time off.
Review from Operations Dept
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
I havent been treated like my fellow coworkers anf get belittled every chance they have
I feel the salary for my position is not competitive with similar jobs, but I do understand that is being evaluated.
WorldStrides aquires other companies often, leaving employees that have been with the company for years in the dust as others are pulled in and pushed into existing teams, carrying over their old titles, leaving no room for growth for those that have been around.
The benefits are expensive and not extensive
WorldStrides has a well earned reputation for being cheap on compensation, despute their bs cliams.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Solid talent and great chemistry.
Publicly, embarrassing employees should not be tolerated in any capacity. Operating off of a public grading system while simultaneously not allowing us to discuss our pay within other coworkers is illegal in so many ways.
Very nice people to work with
We are passionate about what we do.
The bonds that exist in my team, and in many of the teams, are what keep us moving forward.
Review from Operations Dept
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Having flexibility to work at home has made a huge difference, I enjoy my days in the office as well.
The only positive is the people. Honestly, there isn't much else. I don't say that to be dramatic, but the management and company culture is so horrid that all you can do it hope to survive with the help of your equally beaten down co-workers.
Positivity comes from your direct coworkers, management is negative and see employees as 'money grubbing whiners'. The CEO has told the entire company, when people asked for appropriate pay, that we "want money thrown at us" and he can "fire 100 people" for more money to make people feel badly.
My company is against sexual harassment and they are always worried about this stuff, also they enables us to avoid this and don't shut up
Review from Operations Dept
They encourage people to work along and contribute with ideas. We have a lot of team building activities and you get to meet lots of people from around the world.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
We need a change at the top.
Review from Operations Dept
Get rid of Bob and the goofy HR team. Stop sending us "Spirit Week" emails telling us to share our goofy pet pics and changing the font colors in emails to show us that we're a "FUN" company. Telling us "FUN IS MANDATORY" does not make something fun.
A new CEO would do a lot to improve morale.
Review from Operations Dept
Start from scratch might be an idea.
That’s too broad a question for this organizatio
What did you like most about the interview process?
It was a little weird that I had to jump through so many hoops and interviews for a low level position
The interview process is a bit silly, a panel (more than 1 person) interview after a screening stage for an entry level position paying less thank $40,000 was overkill.
The convivial nature of the interview.
Everything was all new for me, and since the beginning HR was so wonderfull!
Review from Operations Dept
That you get to meet the person that will be your boss if you get the job in another perspective, meaning the interview is professional but they do it in a way that you don't feel uncomfortable whatsoever.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Bring in more testing for competency
What makes you most happy at work?
Success. Seeing and hearing from happy clients
Feeling productive and valued and being showed genuine appreciation
Being able to see how much the Pathways program make the scholars happy
work culture, my co-workers, there is always coffe and sometimes donuts. And of course, every day i learn something neew
Review from Operations Dept
That I get to work with people that most of them are on the same page as I do and at some point, you can really think of some of them like family.
Review from Operations Dept
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Attempting to explain what could be improved to executive management is like talking to a brick wall. Therefore, there's nothing I can say here to actually help it improve as the people in charge ARE the problem. Some employees try to make things better but we are up against the tidal wave of mngmt.
The new audience of customer, Generation-Z, cares about how employees at companies they patronize are treated. Employees are not treated well here and Gen-Z will notice and see through the performative allyship in the DEI space sooner or later.
What do you like best about your company?
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
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