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      European Southern Observatory Reviews

      3.8

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (19 total reviews)

      74% positive business outlook

      European Southern Observatory has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The European Southern Observatory employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Management and consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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      19 reviews
      2.0
      18 Feb 2017

      Admin

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Good salary and benefits. Multicultural environment. Excellent colleagues (most of them).

      Cons

      No career development, unless you do favors to management, and make them feel how special they are (all the time). Non-transparency in decision making, also in recruitment and advancement. Incompetent HR. Quite many incompetent middle managers. No respect to principles, no equal and fair treatment.

      3.0
      12 Feb 2019

      Kind people, old-fashioned management style

      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Most of the staff is kind and cooperative. In general, direct supervisors are smart and supportive. The work had some stressful moments, but most of the time it is very calm. Coffee is good and free on all the facilities. ESO use to send their employees to training. I worked in the desert, in a unique and beautiful place. All the employees enjoy long vacations, welfare and school reimbursement. If you want a monthly salary, excellent benefits in a very stable environment, this is the job.

      Cons

      Despite the propaganda, their "clients" are not the scientific community, but the politicians that approve their funds and their exceptional prerogatives. From this basis derives all ESO traits: bureaucratic, avert to change and old-fashioned management style. Lots of exciting possibilities wasted by wrong appointments in upper-leadership positions. There is a high viscosity medium to exhaust anyone trying to do any audacious project; a few succeed after years of tremendous patience, once the idea became commonplace. If you want exciting challenges and frontier technology, go somewhere else.

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