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3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(1,406 total reviews)
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David Miliband

71% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

International Rescue Committee has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,406 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The International Rescue Committee 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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2.0
Jun 12, 2024

Race/Diversity Issues

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Pros

You are working for a mission driven organization and most likely some of what you do is going to make a difference. There are some people that actually care about the work tho and not about their status and how it looks for them to work there.

Cons

If you are not a white savior (google articles in guardian- this has been documented about IRC) you probably won't be treated fairly. Found this to be true while I was there a few years ago, a friend started to work there who is black and couldn't believe the racial discrimination at the HQ, and left. It's also full of people who were in the top consulting companies who are trying to relieve their white guilt, so expect that consulting culture. During Black Lives Matter, they talked the talked but no action other than folks realizing how inequitable it was and leaving including the person they hired for DEI (again google this).

1.0
Apr 4, 2024

Failing Up

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great Mission. The direct service staff have huge hearts. If this office was funded based on empathy, they would be billionaires.

Cons

The only way to succeed is to fail up. 90% of the work is done by the entry level employees because the important leadership positions are currently occupied by people who struggle to manage their own workloads, do poor in their roles, and are promoted into supervisory roles in order to hire someone more administratively competent for the role they've failed to master. The number of bottlenecks in this office range between 100-1000, with new bottlenecks being created everyday by management who micro-manage their staff poorly, have frequent amnesia, and overall a difficulty grasping any sort of reality to what is actually going on with the staff providing direct service. Senior leadership has been 'reviewing' a Diversity/Racism steps to implement into the office for over 3 years now and it shows because nothing in that area has improved one bit.

3.0
Sep 8, 2023

Leadership

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Pros

Leadership is making small strides on matters of DE&I.

Cons

Leadership fails to understand the need for evolution and change in business.

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