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American Red Cross

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Still a decent place to work with good benefits. - Software Engineer American Red Cross Employee Review

4.0
Oct 14, 2008
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Pros

For NHQ and most chapters: The benefits package is quite good (even a pension plan, though I believe it's been somewhat reduced), sense of fulfillment in your work.

Cons

Wasteful spending, fighting between chapters and NHQ, fighting within NHQ, initiatives that get launched with great fanfare only to decline soon after with not much ROI. They need to stick with and support one CEO for at least a 5-year term to carry through what gets started. Not only that, but each new CEO flushes out the old deputies and brings in the new. Every year or so for the past 7 years, we've had no one steady at the CEO and positions directly under the CEO.

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5.0
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Pros

Work life balance Mission focused Adequate compensation

Cons

Lack of diversity in some markets

4.0
Jun 15, 2026
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Pros

Flexible remote hours, supportive team that treats volunteers as contributors rather than interns, and a low-pressure environment

Cons

Tooling is limited compared to corporate environments — primarily Excel-driven, so you won't get exposure to modern BI stacks (Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake) unless you bring them in yourself. Data sources are inconsistent (legacy .xls files, manual exports requiring conversion), so expect clean-up work.

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