Wonderful place to learn and grow - Anonymous MIR Employee Review

Travel opportunities and a chance to work with genuinely informed, kind, and passionate colleagues who care about MIR's destinations.

Extremely difficult clients who do not necessary care about the destinations.

Smart, funny, enjoyable co-workers. An international, well-educated group. Good, competitive salary. I’ve appreciated the opportunity to learn a huge amount about the part of the world that MIR travels to. Since I began work here, I’ve been on eight one-to-three-week international trips, all expenses paid, including salary. MIR has sent me to Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Western Russia and Siberia, and Iran. Since a rash of employee resignations in 2015 and early 2016, the MIR management has spent a lot of time and effort reaching out to employees for suggestions about what needs to change and what would help them retain the talent that has been coming and going here. We each received an extra week of vacation, as well as a day off on our birthdays. The management is much more willing to listen to concerns and address them. The owners can be intimidating, but they have made a real commitment to listen to and consider the employees’ concerns, and the work atmosphere has improved, in my opinion. It’s not easy to let go of micromanaging when you’ve grown a company from a tiny firm with a few employees to a flourishing global enterprise with more than 20.

One problem that we’ve had during this travel season is that we’re understaffed, and some employees are overloaded with responsibilities and stressed out. The management has been actively searching for and interviewing prospective employees, but sometimes job seekers come to Glass Door, read last year’s reviews, and are discouraged from applying or accepting a position.