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Great staff benefits, toxic work environment - Anonymous employee Inter-American Development Bank Employee Review

2.0
27 Apr 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The organization gives opportunity to work in a variety of countries and on high-impact projects from design through completion. Staff persons have at least a relative job stability and great benefits. Consultants are disposable and have little opportunity to advance or secure a permanent position.

Cons

Extremely unhealthy work environment, lack of meritocracy, HR is 20 years behind, extremely political and bureaucratic, no recourse if you face discrimination or other workplace issue

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

Cons

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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 Outdated development agency.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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