Planet Reviews
Updated 18 May 2020
Clear All
Full-time, Part-time
English
Job Status (2)
- Current Employees
- Full-time
- Trainee
- Intern
- Freelance
- Contract
- Apprentice
- Part-time
Location
- Worldwide
- Ireland - All Cities
- - Galway
- - Galway Area
- - Tully, Galway
- - Cork
- - Cork Area
- - Dublin
- - Dublin Area
- France - All Cities
- - Ile-de-France
- - Paris, France Area
- Greece - All Cities
- - Attica
- - Athens, Greece Area
- Mexico - All Cities
- - México
- - Mexico City, Mexico Area
- Singapore - All Cities
- - Singapore, Singapore Area
- Sweden - All Cities
- - Stockholm
- - Stockholm, Sweden Area
- United Arab Emirates - All Cities
- - Dubai
- - Dubai, United Arab Emirates Area
- United Kingdom - All Cities
- - England
- - Bristol, UK Area
- - London, UK Area
- United States - All Cities
- - Delaware
- - Philadelphia, PA, US Area
English
- English
- French
- German
- Dutch
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Italian
Recommend to a Friend
Approve of CEO
Patrick Waldron
25 Ratings
Pros
"Good work environment with lots of arranged social staff activities" (in 9 reviews)
"Good benefits, work life balance and fair treatment" (in 4 reviews)
Cons
"Middle management is bit political by restricting developer innovative ideas to reach over the top management" (in 3 reviews)
"Communication between management and employees" (in 2 reviews)
"Great place to work"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsApproves of CEOI have been working at Planet full-time for more than a year
Pros
As a global company, there are opportunity's to work with people across many different regions, as well as the opportunity to travel depending on your role. Management are very supportive - Opportunity to grow and get involved in projects outside of your role if you are interested and willing. Good sports and social club - Daily fruit, monthly lunches, team activities and charity events Possibility to get exposure to all parts of the business
Cons
Communication across functions could be improved
Planet2020-05-11Thank you for your review and it is good to see how you have embraced the opportunity to work with our diverse and global workforce. We are trying to improve the cross functional communications all the time but I will take note of your point. The great thing about Planet is that the leadership teams are always open to feedback and looking of ways we can improve upon.
- Helpful (1)
"Neutral experience"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI have been working at Planet full-time for more than a year
Pros
People who work there are great, good location, perks of working remotely/travel depending on job title
Cons
Had no induction with HR at the beginning, depend immensely on individuals, no clear structure at times, most systems held together with glue and plaster, no proper reviews with employees, terrible recruitment at times, left head scratching at some management decisions
Continue readingPlanet2020-03-08Planet Response
May 15, 2020 – Head of Talent Management
I am sorry to read that you feel you did not get a good induction. We are working on this and have recently designed a new induction programme that we have started to roll out across the group. Please do not hesitate to reach out to local HR in Galway or indeed a member of the central HR team if you would like to have an open conversation about your experience. We would be happy to consider any suggestions you have as we value all our colleagues that make up the Planet family.
- Helpful (3)
"Dishonest management - Politics based company"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Planet full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
If you tried suicide but didn't succeed.
Cons
1) Joined the team in Galway leaving my home country in 2016. Team manager told me that all developers in the team were based in Galway. It was FALSE. Half of the team was working remotely from home all around europe. 2) I got a 1 year contract with the promise of a permanent contract as soon as somebody was leaving team. It was FALSE. 3 testers and 2 developers left the team and I never got a permanent contract. After other 2 developers left I became the owner of the application, even because remaining developers had connections in the company, didn't want to work and were literally destroying the application when doing bugfixing. Despite of this, rather than getting permanent, I got 1 year contract, then 1 year renewal, then 6 months renewal, then 6 months renewal, then 6 months renewal, then 3 months renewal. So I left. 3) Teams/countries are in competition against each other rathen than working togheter and a unique business strategy. 4) All of these is because this is a politics based company. 5) STAY AWAY FROM POS TEAM!
Planet2020-02-06 - Helpful (1)
"Senior management are really good"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsApproves of CEOI worked at Planet full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
1.Senior/top management people are really good and down to earth personality 2.Many pipelines 3.Very good growth over organisation 4.Top management are very supportive and accepts any advise irrespective of position 5.Work life balance 6.Monthly food, fruits and good HR management.
Cons
1.Middle management/Line managers are lack in people experience, harrasive, discriminative,biased,not treating people well which lacks in good company culture 2.Middle management is political ,biased over single nationality, changing the process to survive themselves. 3.Few resources in technical but more in management that makes lot of wrong commitment from middle management, lot talks rather delivery and play games using resources to stop good implementations to reach over senior management 4.No PMP certified managers are available
Continue readingPlanet2019-09-03 "Very badly managed department"
I worked at Planet full-time
Pros
The people I worked with in general were lovely and very good workers, just not recognised by management
Cons
Need major overhaul on the management side of things
Continue readingPlanet2019-08-30- Helpful (2)
"Disaster"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendDisapproves of CEOI worked at Planet full-time
Pros
Not much... at a push you could say the location of the Galway City Office is convenient
Cons
Title says it all.. no organisation or structure in this company at all!
Planet2019-07-11 "Good company"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
I have been working at Planet full-time for more than 3 years
Pros
Good company to work with
Cons
Used old technologies. No plans to upgrade
Planet2019-03-15- Helpful (1)
"OK company"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo Opinion of CEOI worked at Planet full-time
Pros
Good co-workers, friendly environment, central location, flexible working, ability to remotely work
Cons
Stressful, heavy workload, parking can be an issue, management can be poor, lacking leadership
Continue readingPlanet2018-05-09 - Helpful (5)
"Management"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Planet full-time
Pros
Nice clean office environment to work in.
Cons
Management will throw you under the bus for their screw ups.
Continue readingPlanet2018-05-06 - Helpful (1)
"Developer"
- Work/Life Balance★★★★★
- Culture & Values★★★★★
- Career Opportunities★★★★★
- Compensation and Benefits★★★★★
- Senior Management★★★★★
RecommendsApproves of CEOI have been working at Planet full-time
Pros
Great company to work with to satisfy your passion or new ideas and good work-life balance.
Cons
Middle management is bit political by restricting developer innovative ideas to reach over the top management.
Planet2017-09-24
Join the Planet team
Found 46 reviews
Planet Response
May 15, 2020 – Head of Talent Management