Greenpeace reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(619 total reviews)
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84% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Greenpeace has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 619 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Greenpeace 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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619 reviews
1.0
Jan 28, 2022

Toxic workplace with a poverty mentality

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Pros

The time off and benefits are relatively good for the US. Working for an important cause. The best parts of Greenpeace are inspiring. Some autonomy, but that has decreased with recent leadership changes. Flexibility is good.

Cons

Leadership is extremely out of touch, both with employees and with the environmental movement at large. Staff meetings are the managers falling over themselves to pay each other on the back, never mentioning the mass exodus especially by people of color and women. Toxic culture with no accountability. Long term employees stick around, doing the same thing that hasn’t been effective for years, while pushing out people who bring energy and new ideas. Talent isn’t appreciated or nurtured, but rather seen as threatening. They overpromote people but don’t ensure they get much needed management or even job skills. They did mass layoffs of the canvas and then of many long term employees. They replaced some people with unskilled junior hires, but mostly hired fundraisers. The new leadership hires are more of the same big talk, but no actual skills. They say all the right things, but it’s performative. This place is the definition of white supremacy culture (And I am white.) It is a dying organization and people should stop giving them money. It only supports people at the top.

2.0
Feb 23, 2017

Disappointment

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Pros

Some flexibility, slightly better pay and benefits than most nonprofits.

Cons

Constant organizational chaos, incompetent Executive Director and senior staff, lack of commitment to values, completely toxic workplace for people of color, and desperately needs to be unionized. There's a lot of tunnel vision and group think at the senior level.

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