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Mixed Feelings - Anonymous employee World Resources Institute Employee Review

3.0
Dec 7, 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Excellent work culture, everyone is so kind and helpful - Benefits are great - Organizational impact is high - Work is interesting - High-quality outputs - Flexible work/remote policy

Cons

- Relentlessly bureaucratic, can be difficult and take forever to push your work along - Junior staff are severely underpaid, including minorities and women that HR claims they are fixing with "equity" initiatives that end up not helping whatsoever - Salary when you join is based on an "equity" system, despite being advertised as "commensurate with experience" - no room for negotiation - What seems to be barely any possibility to move upward, high turnover of lower-level positions due to being paid the bare minimum - Constantly shoving DEI politics into the everyday work environment - work should be non-political - HR department sucks terribly, doesn't respond, unbelievably unhelpful when they do respond. Increasingly taking away power from managers regarding merit raises, performance evaluations, goal-setting, etc

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Resource constraints affecting efficiency: working with limited staffing and budgets sometimes made it challenging to execute projects efficiently Compensation compared to the private sector: salaries are noticeably lower than for private-sector roles, which is especially challenging in a city like NYC. Project direction influenced by funding priorities: I noticed that donor and grant priorities often shaped the direction of projects. Career progression tied to funding cycles: advancement opportunities often depended on program funding rather than purely on performance.

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