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Carnegie Foundation

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Hires great talent who then suffer. Top down leadership with no autonomy. - Anonymous employee Carnegie Foundation Employee Review

1.0
Jul 29, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

+ Beautiful but isolated location, near nature and golf course but not near any social areas such a shops, eateries for lunch and so on. + Good benefits. + Great dedicated people are hired, but they don't stay.

Cons

- Favoritism to particular programs or people who are close to leadership. - The elephant in the room, HR is really in favor of leadership and attacks staff rather than resolves issues that could be handled amicably if staff were given benefit of doubt. - Amazingly talented people are hired who are quickly dejected when they realize they have no autonomy, are told frequently that decisions to their projects have been made by leadership. - Turnover can be as fast a few months or half a hear. Programs suffer because they lose good people. - Perks are not worth the loss of value staff feel working here. - Massive hierarchy. Culture and communication reflect this.

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Leadership back then brought a lot of hierarchy from academic institutions into this non-profit. Ultimately, practitioners were not as respected as the scholars. These days, there is new leadership and I am not there anymore. I hear it's a much more corporate culture, more interest in securing large grants than doing innovative work. But don't take my word for it - this is just second-hand.

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