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Human Rights Watch reviews

3.2

62% would recommend to a friend

(180 total reviews)
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Kenneth Roth

57% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Human Rights Watch has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 180 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Human Rights Watch 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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180 reviews
3.0
Apr 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

One of the only places in the world you can do this kind of work, and it can be thrilling and impactful. Excellent, well-resourced platform if you know how to pull internal levers of power and make people care about projecting your work to the world. Smart colleagues -- though the lack of diversity, especially in core departments (hello, 95%-white communications team!) means anything outside of the Anglo/Western norm gets dismissed, overlooked, or edited aggressively.

Cons

Senior leadership is overwhelmingly myopic and self-serving. New leaders try to make changes, but it happens inconsistently and largely based on the loudest voices in the room/last complaint they received. People stay in "acting"/"interim" roles for extended periods of time with minimal support or oversight. Staff who play by the rules, by and large, lose the race, while staff who promote themselves and cut corners get promoted and recognized.

4.0
Feb 28, 2022

Good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Gives opportunity to make a difference in peoples lives.

Cons

Not very team work based

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