Ashoka reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(251 total reviews)
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Bill Drayton

44% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Ashoka has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 251 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ashoka 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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251 reviews
1.0
Jul 31, 2017

The worst place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexible work/life balance. Fellows because everyone just loves the fellows.

Cons

Ashoka was considered a groundbreaking organization back in the 80's when it brought management thinking into the non-profit sector to create social entrepreneurship. However, today Ashoka combines the worst aspects of the corporate world and the nonprofit sector. You will deal with all the invented jargon, unfulfilling work, and cold workplace culture of the corporate world with the disorganization, low pay, and directionless strategy of the nonprofit sector. Executive-level staff exhibit absolutely no leadership nor social-emotional intelligence, they have no accountability and "empower" junior and mid-level staff to be "entrepreneurial" so they can take credit for their work when the results are successful but have no problem throwing them under the bus to save themselves when it's not working out. You come to Ashoka believing that you'll be doing important work that will change the world, but within weeks you'll cruelly realize that you're only there to fulfill the disconnected CEO's utopian fantasy. There's a lot more which can be said about this organization: prominent 2-tier system of employees, inability to discover growth opportunities, lack of organizational vision, overpaid and underperforming senior staff. All this has been touched upon in prior reviews and doesn't need to be expounded upon.

1.0
May 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work if you only care about your own thing - there is plenty of time so you can start up something of your own or basically bide time till you find something else. Everyone else seems to be doing the same thing

Cons

For all their talk about empathy, distributed leadership, teamwork etc - nothing is visible within the organisation. Everyone is working like an individual within a larger structure (under the garb of entrepreneurship) and running in different directions. You should celebrate if you get ANYTHING done here.

1.0
Mar 9, 2016

difficult place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

flexibility, networking, energetic and passionate staff

Cons

lack of leadership, structure, communication,

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