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Treats junior staff terribly! - Anonymous employee World Resources Institute Employee Review

1.0
23 Jul 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Flexible hours, good mission, builds experience

Cons

One of the most toxic and secretive HR structures and compensation packages of anywhere I have worked. For junior employees, there is no value in prior work experience and/or graduate degrees. I know three people with identical compensation, but one has only a BA, one has an MSC no prior experience, one has an MSC 3 yrs prior experience. This is standard at WRI. If you have a MSC from Stanford or a BA from No-Name Liberal Arts School, you will have identical compensation. This is the kind of place to get on your resume and then get out of as fast as possible to find an organization that actually values the employees who are generating the work on a day-to-day level.

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Resource constraints affecting efficiency: working with limited staffing and budgets sometimes made it challenging to execute projects efficiently Compensation compared to the private sector: salaries are noticeably lower than for private-sector roles, which is especially challenging in a city like NYC. Project direction influenced by funding priorities: I noticed that donor and grant priorities often shaped the direction of projects. Career progression tied to funding cycles: advancement opportunities often depended on program funding rather than purely on performance.

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