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      4.0

      78% would recommend to a friend

      (129 total reviews)

      António Campinos

      71% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

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      EPO has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 129 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The EPO employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Governamental ou administração pública industry (3.6 stars).

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      129 reviews
      5.0
      Feb 20, 2020

      Combination of legal and technical knowledge

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      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

      Cons

      The job requires long hours working with a PC to read text and search prior art.

      1.0
      Sep 10, 2019

      Unfair treatment to contractors

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I met very clever people

      Cons

      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
      Aug 10, 2019

      EPO

      Patent examiner
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      No national taxes, interesting work, many clubs and activities paid by office, nice colleagues

      Cons

      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

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