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3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(245 total reviews)
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Annie Duflo

70% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Innovations for Poverty Action has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 245 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Innovations for Poverty Action 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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245 reviews
2.0
May 14, 2018

Lots of Mismanagement

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Great place to make a difference - Lots of talented people to learn from - Great locations available

Cons

- Most the talent is at the bottom, not the top (or even middle) - More focused on credentials than expertise, experience - Poor HR and poor workplace harassment policy and reporting guidelines - NYC office has a terrible culture

4.0
May 9, 2018

Intern/ research fellow

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Pros

Great learning opportunity in a vibrant place.

Cons

No enumeration or compensation for interns.

3.0
Apr 23, 2018

No structure due to lack of good management staff.

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Pros

The benefits and the ability to work remotely. If you’re manager allows it. The work done in the field is important to fully understand how to assist people in need.

Cons

Unprofessional management, whom think it’s appropriate to speak about their staff in the open, usually slandering their good name. Finance department takes months to close, yes I said months to close the books. There is no training, you will be thrown on a computer and expect to know what to do. Since everyone is so busy no one has the time to explain or train, yet they tell you they do. A week of training upon starting would be awesome or at least webinars, something! Managers will throw people under the bus to save themselves. The employees are nice, but you never know who to trust! Very minimal employee socialization, since everyone is too busy. One task can take you all day, while your emails are piling up. The emails can be in the vicinity of 40-70 per day. Emails must be deciphered and researching anything is nearly impossible, due to the fact they don’t standardize anything needed to be standardized. Very high turn over due to the jobs burn people out. I have seen people never come back and just disappear. A few weeks later people finally notice they are no longer there and that’s it! It goes the other way as well, people get fired after years of service, apparently they made too many mistakes. Unstable environment!

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