Samaritans Reviews

3.9

69% would recommend to a friend

(62 total reviews)

49% positive business outlook

Samaritans has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 62 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Samaritans employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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62 reviews
1.0
11 Feb 2019

If you value your own mental health, stay away.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Peers and colleagues all work together through difficult times.

Cons

Awful place to work. Bad management, bad leadership, absent CEO. So many people are being paid off, and their payments are not declared in the charity’s end of year accounts. HR processes are not being followed, and people are bullied and harrassed by senior management until they are forced to leave. This is not my personal experience, I left to join another organisation, but I have watched so many of my friends and colleagues’ mental health become destroyed by this organisation that claims to be there to support people. I’d never recommend anyone work here, and I would definitely advise the public to give their money to a charity that is actually doing something to look after people’s mental health rather than adding to the epidemic. I have seen former colleagues self harm, self medicate and one even took their own life because of this organisation. Totally unacceptable.

1.0
29 Aug 2018

General

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Working with volunteers and many staff

Cons

Senior mgmt and spineless HR very questionable practices

1.0
29 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Money is ok for charity sector

Cons

Bullying and sexist and dishonest and heaven forbid you question them on anything as then they get nasty. And they waste so much money

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