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Ticker Symbol Entity Name As Of Date Review Url Logo Company Author Title Author Location Author Country Summary Description PROs CONs Recommends Value Recommends Description Outlook Value Outlook Description CEO Review Value CEO Review Description Helpful Count Rating: Overall Rating: Work/Life Balance Rating: Culture & Values Rating: Career Opportunities Rating: Comp & Benefits Rating: Senior Management Rating: Diversity & Inclusion Company Id Company URL Advice to Management Not Helpful Count Employer Responses Employer Status Is featured? Is current job? Job Ending Year Length of Employment Company Website Company Industry Id Company Sector Id Date Added Date Updated Company Name Sector Industry
private:europeanpatentoffice https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=198808 Jan 16th, 2021 12:00AM Open Open EPO Administrator Ireland IRL Good place to work if you enjoy office politics Excellent salary and great colleagues Office politics means change can be slow there -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 DISAPPROVE 0.0 3.0 3.0 4.0 2.0 5.0 2.0 198808 Open Stop interfering with staff salaries and pensions 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 20.0 Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM European Patent Office
private:europeanpatentoffice https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=198808 Jan 9th, 2021 12:00AM Open Open EPO Munich, Bavaria Great place to work Great benefits, building, international colleagues and canteen None that come to my mind. 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 5.0 4.0 5.0 4.0 5.0 5.0 198808 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 2.0 Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM European Patent Office
private:europeanpatentoffice https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=198808 Dec 9th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open EPO Trainee Munich, Bavaria Room for improvement Great colleagues who would be more than willing to give trainees a chance to make a valuable contribution No job opportunities after the traineeship and the quality of the training mainly is dependent on the trainee itself rather than a holistic approach from the EPO. 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 NEUTRAL 1.0 APPROVE 0.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 1.0 4.0 5.0 198808 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 2.0 Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM European Patent Office
private:europeanpatentoffice https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=198808 Nov 16th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open EPO Trainee Munich, Bavaria Satisfactory training A very intensive and complete training and development program. Plus they offer language courses included in the program to those who don't speak German. I don't have cons at this moment. 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 5.0 5.0 198808 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 1.0 Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM European Patent Office
private:europeanpatentoffice https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=198808 Oct 27th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open EPO Patent Examiner Rijswijk, South Holland Stable public service Good pay, pension, medical insurance and leave Very dependent on its president 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 POSITIVE -1.0 DISAPPROVE 0.0 4.0 5.0 3.0 3.0 5.0 2.0 198808 Open More collaboration with staff 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 20.0 Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM European Patent Office
private:europeanpatentoffice https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=198808 Oct 23rd, 2020 12:00AM Open Open EPO Patent Examiner Munich, Bavaria Excellent job International environment, excellent salary and extra advantages Administration sometimes burdensome and career promotion umsecure 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 NO_OPINION 0.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 5.0 5.0 198808 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 20.0 Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM European Patent Office
private:europeanpatentoffice https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=198808 Feb 20th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open EPO Netherlands NLD Combination of legal and technical knowledge Interesting job, serving the public with intrinsic higher purpose. Great work-life balance. Overall great benefit package. Attention to the well-being of the staff The job requires long hours working with a PC to read text and search prior art. 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 5.0 4.0 198808 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 20.0 Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM European Patent Office
private:europeanpatentoffice https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=198808 Nov 25th, 2019 12:00AM Open Open EPO Patent Examiner Munich, Bavaria Not a good place, in particular for the inmates Can only see good things in the past before the Batistelli administration. Now Batistelli is gone, but gets even worse. Future looks grim, no hope. Worst thing: can't find way out, lost all energy. Wish had never entered. -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 DISAPPROVE 0.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 198808 Open They may already have damaged the place beyond repair; anyway, they have no intention to fix it. Would probably be better to shut it down. 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 9.0 Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM European Patent Office
private:europeanpatentoffice https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=198808 Sep 10th, 2019 12:00AM Open Open EPO Senior Software Engineer The Hague Unfair treatment to contractors I met very clever people The manager there was very bad and impossible to handle. He yelled at the colleagues , fired almost all the team and was impossible to work with, but because he was internal I could see almost no consequences from their actions. Some people changed the country for work here and were fired from one day to other. Contractors has to pay 100% of coffee lunchs etc while internals only 50%. I felt contractors were second class employees and no matter how well you perform, you won’t have a permanent position without contacts. -1.0 NEGATIVE 0.0 NEUTRAL 0.0 NO_OPINION 1.0 1.0 5.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 198808 Open Please when in a department most of the contractors are leaving, don’t you think is time to change the manager? 0.0 [] No No 0.0 Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM European Patent Office
private:europeanpatentoffice https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=198808 Aug 10th, 2019 12:00AM Open Open EPO Patent Examiner Germany DEU EPO No national taxes, interesting work, many clubs and activities paid by office, nice colleagues Unfair salary scheme, weird promotions, production pressure too high, new contracts are only for 5 years and not permanent after one year like in the past 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 NEUTRAL 0.0 NO_OPINION 1.0 1.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 3.0 1.0 198808 Open Practice common sense and allow democratic decisions 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 4.0 Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM Feb 7th, 2021 06:15PM European Patent Office

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