Ashoka reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(251 total reviews)
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43% 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
Aug 9, 2013

Heart-Breaking

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Has helped millions if not billions of people around the world with brilliant solutions to social problems that work.

Cons

Ashoka is doing some of the best work in the world but the low staff salaries are abusive and unethical. Almost all staff who stay more than two years depend on spouses or parents for anything significant like having children, buying a house or saving for retirement. Non-wealthy staff are in poor mental health from always cutting corners, working second jobs, panicked they will never have families, putting themselves in dangerous situations and knowing that they are going to be struggling to make ends meet when they are older and vulnerable.

2.0
Oct 2, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is a very innovative environment and entrepreneurship is encouraged. The organization is now becoming well-known and respected.

Cons

The company culture is dismal. The morale is low, there is little to no praise or encouragement, and there is constant complaining about the low salary. The people who work there tend to be cliquey and anti-social.

1.0
Nov 27, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people who don’t have to work with the CEO are the best people to interact with because they are still innocent. There is always opportunity to take on new roles and responsibilities because people above you keep leaving.

Cons

- The CEO lacks ethical fiber; he acts in the best interest of himself, not the organization or its mission. - The CEO lies regularly and has created a culture of fear-motivated performance amongst his senior leaders who are incapable of holding him accountable. - The CEO is unable to accept any criticism without a tantrum or developing a grudge. - The CEO’s “new ideas” are not new. He believes he’s the first to describe concepts or processes that have been around for 15+ years. All he does is repackage the ideas in so much jargon and fluff. He puts the responsibility on the rest of the organization to decipher what he actually means, which often takes years as he constantly moves the goal posts without warning or consultation with anyone else. - The CEO is 80+ years old and has no succession plan or process that is implementable. - The CEO often counts the number of women and employees of color in the head office as evidence that there is no DEI issues in the office. - Many senior and mid level staff at the Global Office tend to go on medical leave or a sabbatical and never come back to Ashoka.

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