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3.6

58% would recommend to a friend

(244 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 244 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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244 reviews
5.0
Jul 22, 2014
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Pros

The people were amazing, you were implementing the best recent idea in development in trying conditions with a huge amount of autonomy. It was up to you and the organization was very entrepreneurial. No one in development was working remotely as hard or having anywhere as near as much fun as far as I could tell. If you want the same demanding environment as professional services in the west IPA gives you the opportunity to experience it. The culture of the place was just awesome.

Cons

Compensation was terrible, support was sometimes lacking and staff worked too hard as a result of the lack of support. The organization was going through growing pains and was presumably going to improve some of the lack of safety around travel.

4.0
Jun 23, 2014

Great learning experience

Recommend
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Pros

1. Great field and data management experience 2. Work with well-known economists who can write recommendations for graduate school

Cons

1. Not a lot of structure

3.0
Jun 9, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

independence, lots of responsibility, opportunities to travel and gain field experience, mostly cool people, meaningful work where you can see a real impact in a short amount of time

Cons

there is high turnover in key departments like HR, grants and finance; unclear chain of command and supervisor structures, between professors and office directors; compensation is very low

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