Pros
The statistics on hate crimes are crucial, even though interns are the ones doing the majority of the work and are never credited.
Cons
Pretty much everything? The work culture is so toxic it's absurd. To guide my concerns, I'll just comment on this posting: "While we don’t usually respond to posts on Glassdoor, this comment is so inaccurate and misleading that it demands a response. First, ADL is committed to its values, including the values of inclusion and respect. Our staff is evaluated both on performance against goals and demonstration of our values. We believe to our core that everyone at ADL has an equal opportunity to participate, to contribute, to advance, and to be treated with respect. Second, the leadership of our organization is very different than the description in the post. Our senior team is diverse in terms of age, gender and ethnicity. For example, approximately half of our senior leadership is female. We believe our diversity is a strength that benefits our agency and the communities we serve." Inclusion and respect are seriously not adhered to at all. Unless you are willing to act and think like leadership, you will be ostracized and have no opportunity for advancements. You have to play into the favoritism by aligning your politics and thoughts with the vision coming from the top (which is totally disjointed because this organization changes it views all the time, depending on who the audience is). If you are visibly different from the top, i.e., not a straight, Jewish, white man , then you have to change everything about you to fit in with that mold as much as possible. If you don't, you are absolutely not respected. Speaking of not being respected, in the Regional Office I saw managers literally yelling at staff over the most mundane things. Yelling is never appropriate in the workplace, so really it shouldn't matter whether it was mundane or not. The evaluation process is absurd: for the goal setting I was asked to simply put down what my current job responsibilities were, and the process was seen as a burden. There was absolutely 0 discussion about possibilities for advancement. Advancement is not based on merit, instead, it's all nepotism. Look at the staff who are in Salesforce and you'll find that many of them have friends and family who were big contributors while they were ascending up the organization. Managers who have been there for decades squeak by doing 0 work because they are feared and because they are so incompetent they no longer know how to do their job now that everything is done by computers. The switch to Salesforce was brutal since no one is comfortable with new technology, systems, or processes. All the work that is done at ADL is done by admin staff, but they get none of the credit. I can go on and on, but I'll go towards the last point about inclusion and diversity in the senior team. It's pretty telling that the only acknowledgment of inclusion and diversity is that there are now more women, as if that is the most progressive thing possible. Just this year the Board of Directors was re-created and there was 0 POC or anyone else considered 'diverse' other than white women. No wonder this organization is failing so hard if diversity if their strength, they are atrophied like no other.
