This place is a joke. - Anonymous employee WhyHunger Employee Review

1.0
Mar 21, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-You can travel to interesting places. -You meet some really wonderful activists from around the country and the world. -Lots of "lower" staff members are friendly and fun to be around. -A good chance to understand and engage with the issues surrounding the work and mission.

Cons

-The leadership in this place (especially on the Programs side) is like the movie Mean Girls. It's all about preferential treatment, favoritism, and closed-door conversations and decisions. Lots of bullying. No HR dept. to speak of. -Very clear (but unspoken) racism from upper management, as well as lack of respect for younger employees. -People get hired and fired in the place out of the blue and it's demoralizing to the staff. -Lack of equity in terms of benefits. Some people could work from home when they liked, and others did not have this flexibility (even those who need it more). -Too much time planning, too little time implementing. -Senior management disregards deadlines often and demand your flexibility. However, they have the "right" to do whatever they want. They can be 3 hours late to a meeting or reschedule it a fifth time. Your time is not important to them.

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5.0
Feb 13, 2021
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Pros

Great company, great coworkers, inclusive environment, great cause

Cons

No internships because of COVID

1.0
Jul 30, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Come to make a difference, realize you've make a terrible mistake, stay for the paycheck and benefits. If you can make it though a few years in this dysfunctional microcosm of the nonprofit industrial complex, you'll learn a lot about nonprofit management, mostly by observing how things should not be done. You'll be prepared for and deserving of greener pastures. That said, you'll be sad to leave behind the select few good souls who are stuck working here for whatever reason.

Cons

Where does one begin? No chances for career advancement, blatant institutionalized racism, unspoken sexism and homophobia. This place is a perfect example of the 80/20 rule: 20 percent of the people here do 80 percent of the actual work. Also 20 percent of the people here have 80 percent of the brains. The remaining 80 percent just pretend to work and engage in critical thought processes. They've become so good at faking it, I think they've even convinced themselves. The predominant management style here is feudalism with a smattering of nepotism. Almost as much time and effort is spent infighting as fighting hunger...or whatever it is that WhyHunger does. Scarce resources, managerial power struggles, no plausible or even discernible theory of change, Mean Girls drama, loyalty over competency...it's a rabbit hole of emotionally abusive dysfunction stemming from the self-serving management and their cronies.

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