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Unnecessarily stressful - Manager World Resources Institute Employee Review

2.0
May 24, 2023
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Pros

Enthusiastic young professionals, international network, good learning platform for climate and environment wonks.

Cons

Work life balance is in the negative. The management has created an unnecessarily busy environment. Work culture is not friendly and everyone is running after unproductive meetings all day. Success is measured by how many meetings you attend in a day.-that’s nothing to be proud of. Too much effort for less output-inefficient work culture overall. Crumbled HR infrastructure. Marketing is very good though. They can shine a stone and sell it as diamond-over-claiming and under performing in the industry. There is no means of verification of outcomes WRI claims it’s produced. If there was an independent evaluation of the achievements it boasts of the org would be at a big risk.

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Cons

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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