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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
1.0
Mar 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Get to work with different people outside an office setting daily. Flexible schedule as long as you get your work done.

Cons

National is making all decisions now and local offices have no more say so. People in DC have unrealistic ideas of what the job entails. Trying to do more with less with no regard to employees well being. Employees are no longer respected.... they are a number and can be replaced easily in managements mind.

2.0
Feb 17, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

got to meet different people, opportunity to grow in field, raise every 6 months, decent pay, mileage reimbursment, experience, good title on resume.

Cons

poor management that fraternizes and sleeps with some of the employees, very unproffessional workers who are loud and irrate. No flexibility with hours, the schedule leaves no room for a life outside of work. If you show up late or dont come in you get whats called an "occurence" and after a certain amount of these they fire you. They fire anyone they dont like and pretty much hire anyone. Your supposed to have a specific area to work in that is close to where you live but you will barely be in that area. Instead they will put you somewhere 3 hours out of where you live and expect you to be there on time at like 5 am. They say they reimburse your travel pay and parking costs but that takes months to get back and constant arguing with them to get it and by that time you dont even care anymore. This place is pretty much full of young "ghetto' immature people. Its like a big highschool, there are fights and gossip and if your desperate for a job than maybe take it but im said to say i wasted two years of my life here smh

2.0
Feb 12, 2016

Disaster Program Manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great at team work within in Disaster Services! Rewarding results from the completed work! The job is flexiable during non-disaster periods. Compassionate, dedicated team members that stress wanting to do the best and want to make a difference in communities.

Cons

Lack of volunteers adding more work to the management team. Work long hours and on call 24/7. Lack of management support from upper management. Lack of communication between departments. Lack of new hire training, lack of training when an internal or external change occurs.

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