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Interesting work, but poor career prospects - Consultant Inter-American Development Bank Employee Review

3.0
Oct 12, 2012
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Pros

Interesting work Good exposure to Latin America and Caribbean Good work-life balance

Cons

No clear career path Difficult place to advance professionally, as people never leave and the organization is extremely bureaucratic Often disorganized, lack of professional management IDB increasingly depends on consultants who do not have proper benefits, but often perform the same work as staff on consulting contracts for years.

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Excellent benefits, culture and opportunity to make a real impact.

Cons

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Pros

You get to work with elitist Spanish speaking Latin Americans who are xenophobic for people that speak other languages, who have processes, paper pushing and career progression as major objective, not real development outcomes (eradicate extreme poverty & improve quality of life in LAC).

Cons

Bureaucracy. Outdated development agency. Abusive to and misclassifying contractors. People who don’t know what they are doing or talking about. Delivers trash projects and pulls impoverished countries further into national debt. Technocratic and too much focus on metrics, not impoverished people’s lived experience.

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