Heartbreaking and Chaotic place to work--AVOID - Advancement Staff Sierra Club Employee Review

1.0
Feb 17, 2024
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Pros

The staff, folks on the frontlines, organizers, and most of the middle managers and below are amazing, driven, and dedicated to their work. I left the org with a connection to some truly amazing talent who mostly don't work at SC any longer.

Cons

Please heed all the low reviews. An organization that doesn't do right by its staff deserves nothing but low reviews. Getting over the stress and burnout from working so hard in a chaotic organization has taken months of healing. If the organization continues in this direction, I don't see how it will be around in five years. The manner in which Ben Jealous came on board and made arbitrary and opaque decisions within the first two months was one of the worst leadership transitions I've ever encountered in my 20 years as a worker.

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5.0
Feb 3, 2026
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Pros

Great benefits and mission. Amazing people

Cons

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1.0
Mar 29, 2026
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Pros

It was like this since the beginning

Cons

An executive who still works there kept asking certain people of color to create proposals he confirmed several times that he was very interested in hiring them for or giving them a contract. They spent hundreds of hours over years creating these propsals. Not only did he not pay them, he didn't even thank them.

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