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Nepotism - Lead Specialist Inter-American Development Bank Employee Review

1.0
24 Dec 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits (health insurance, life insurance, leave, among others) Wage above average Flexibility in the type of role you want to develop in the projects.

Cons

The Bank seems to follow an agenda that varies depending on who is in key positions. Unfortunately, not everyone in such key positions is qualified to do their job. Sometimes, more often than not, people get promoted to managerial positions for arbitrary reasons that act agains the supposed principles of this organization. If you are an idealist person you probably will not be working here. After a while, people work here for the benefits, it is a comfortable job, hard to get fired, but hard to do a good job. Very political.

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Inter-American Development Bank Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. At the IDB, we care about our employees’ career development. We offer international experience, with more than 25 offices in Latin America and the Caribbean. We also help employees get better at their jobs, offering a wide-range of trainings year-round and promotions are based on competitive processes, accessible to everyone.

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Pros

Excellent benefits, culture and opportunity to make a real impact.

Cons

There is bureaucracy across the organization. Vertical career progression can be slow.

2.0
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Pros

You get to work with elitist Spanish speaking Latin Americans who are xenophobic for people that speak other languages, who have processes, paper pushing and career progression as major objective, not real development outcomes (eradicate extreme poverty & improve quality of life in LAC).

Cons

Bureaucracy. Outdated development agency. Abusive to and misclassifying contractors. People who don’t know what they are doing or talking about. Delivers trash projects and pulls impoverished countries further into national debt. Technocratic and too much focus on metrics, not impoverished people’s lived experience.

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