Innovations for Poverty Action reviews

Intrinsically poor organization. Unless you work in the main office, the work is project based, so you really work for and are dependent on the investigator running your project, but are also expected to report to your local director (if you are even lucky enough to have one). However these two "supervisors" do not have the same agenda and priorities. This makes for many an awkward situation. Poor communication from HQ to local staff. No support for people doing fieldwork. Retched pay. High turnover.

I have never worked in such a stressful environment, nor felt so under-appreciated. Project staff are given an incredible amount of responsibility and pressure, with very little or no guidance. Management gives unreasonable deadlines, and regularly makes demands for long nights or meetings on weekends. Nearly no praise is given for a job well done, but plenty of criticism is given for failing to meet impossible or unknown standards.