Has so much potential for health growth - Anonymous employee AARP Employee Review

3.0
15 Jul 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great compensation and benefits. Many opportunities for great social mission. Some of technology used are progressive and advance compared to other small/mid size companies. Employees are rewarded with bonus for the hard work

Cons

Lack of accountability. Too afraid to apply standard operation policy for better business model and policy tend to be violated based on personal convenient not based on revenue drivers. Too many exception given to the management staff due to the broken business process, and as a result, broken processes need get fixed as management do not feel the pain. Re-org takes place annually across departments and too many competing agenda between departments

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

great benefits even for interns like free lunch, reimbursed parking, hybrid work. good opportunities to network, hone your skills, and potentially get a permanent role within the organization.

Cons

long onboarding. lots of hr training.

2.0
2 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

benefits are strong - pension, vacation, sick, caregiving work life balance is generally good

Cons

AARP suffers from a serious toxic work culture, particularly in the IT and Digital Transformation departments. Leadership is atrocious. People leading the 2 key technology functions for the business are incompetent and ego maniacs. Both departments are extremely toxic with burned out employees and contractors. Money gets wasted in the extreme due to these factors. Constant signal switching on projects and priorities. Everyone you work with is unhappy. Bullying and retaliation are common. Avoid these departments in particular, but the whole organization is top heavy, with terrible leadership all around. Still there are some great and talented people, but it's not the norm, and senior leadership is wrought with incompetence and arrogance. The organization flails around endlessly, and blows money with no discipline or rigor to their work and methods. Think someone is juicing the Glassdoor numbers with people saying the place is great. No opportunity for growth. The organization tries to do good work, and does in many ways, but it's so poorly run that it severely hampers its potential.

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