American Cancer Society Reviews

Cons

I don't think there are any cons, I really love working here.

Cons

It can be challenging to always try to outdo your most recent year, but it’s necessary for us to find a cure! We must continue to grow.

Cons

Night hours, lots of reports

Cons

Very reactive and unwilling to change. Says they will reward employees for long term employment by offering to move departments, but hiring managers will give an excuse that you don’t have experience in that department when you interview to move departments.

Cons

Low pay and you may be laid off without notice despite how hard you work. Execs in Atlanta lay off employees to trim costs, without regard to work performance.

Cons

Long hours. High expectations. Stress.

Cons

MN leadership lacks knowledge of fundraising and sales in general, lots of favoritism for promoting people without proven ability. While this is not proven, it felt like if you were female and under 30 you had a good career track. I'm sorry to say but the main leader of this midwest group, while a good communicator , lacks people leadership. Example - Relay for Life leader, who's area was failing got kept and put into another program during a reorg, they put a leader into Corporate who didn't have the contacts in the area over many others that did, like they didn't understand the power of being connected into community - in retrospect, very few of the "leaders" actually had a success story to share, they just were a result of corporate favoritism. The internal staff in WI did not work well with one another, they spent a lot of time talking about others vs. elevating eachother, the office environment in WI is stifling, , It was sad to think that severance packages came from donor dollars that doesn't sit well with me. Too many reorg's they don't give the current vision enough time to develop before they are "finding a new way to do something" change is good, just not every 6 mos.

Cons

Management is clueless. Organization lacks trust between employees and management.

Cons

No work-life balance, get used to working beyond 40 hours a week, no opportunity to advance, stagnant salaries despite professional success

Cons

Opportunity for growth is almost non existent. They solicit for open supervisor positions but you need to be with the company for years to be considered as a potential candidate.
Micromanaging by supervisors and lack of understanding for personal matters that arise. You work with cancer patients every day and it can be emotionally draining and then having a supervisor that isn’t empathetic to personal matters that arise can be frustrating. Especially when they say the rules are the rules...definitely demonstrates this nonprofi is run from a business mindset.