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American Red Cross reviews

3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(4,615 total reviews)
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Gail McGovern

68% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

American Red Cross has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 4,615 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The American Red Cross employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

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5K reviews
2.0
Jul 8, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The mission is great -- collecting blood to be used to help ill or injured people is noble. Preparing for and responding to disasters, locally and nationally, is necessary and provides a lot of joy and satisfaction to people who really need the assistance.

Cons

The Human Resources leadership at the national headquarters is poor. The SVP is a lawyer who has no prior direct HR experience and the VP for Biomedical Services HR is a former Training and Education/OD consultant with no other HR experience. Between the two of them, HR is in chaos. Employee morale is low, turnover is high and employee recognition and work life balance is bad.

2.0
Jul 7, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

You are generally doing work to help people in genuine need. Many clients and volunteers recognize and are truly thankful for your time, effort, concern and dedication. You are put at the forefront of a crisis and are afforded the opportunity to affect change.

Cons

Always on call, unqualified and incompetent volunteer leadership. Many volunteers are granted a leadership or other critical position based on tenure or ability to contribute financially and not according to their leadership or management ability.

1.0
Jul 24, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great mission is about it. Great volunteers. Great donors.

Cons

Revolving door of employees and Leadership does not care. says its all about the lifesaving mission and it is BUT NOT in these roles.. IT IS ALL ABOUT THE NUMBERS,THAT'S IT. From VP of sales down - numbers are rammed down your throat daily. New Regional Director from Utah came into SC 8 months ago , largest turnover since, by either getting intimidated to resign, people quit because expected to do more work on top of all the work already have, terminated due to " numbers" per Leadership, however, goals are unreachable unless want to work over 12hr days plus try to catch up on weekend to try to get work done PLUS cover other areas where there is no Account Managers...District Managers are all gone, who all had decades with the company- red flag right there. Can not wait to get into another company that actually cares about mission not metrics.. ZERO WORK LIFE BALANCE-IF ANYONE TELLS YOU OTHERWISE, THEY ARE LYING. STAY CLEAR!

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