Everything looks good from outside, until you get experience working at EFI - Researcher European Forest Institute Employee Review

Good salary, very competitive benefits package, and flexibility with the home office policy. 35 vacation days per year. Great work environment and office to work in (Sant Pau Art Nouveau site). Excellent colleagues.

here is a degree of instability regarding the institution’s funding. Many contracts are temporary rather than permanent, and several departments are overly dependent on European project funding. The constant need to secure new funding makes it difficult to focus efforts on more corporate or institutional priorities. In some units, a certain level of micromanagement from heads undermines team trust.

Exciting city to be working and living

No team spirit, due to poor management locally and on the top