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Not a great place to work - Communications Inter-American Development Bank Employee Review

1.0
Mar 5, 2020
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Pros

Your coworkers are talented.

Cons

Highly hierarchical and lacks a sense of purpose. According to an internal Gallup poll, the vast majority of employees feel disengaged from their work. Consultants have terrible benefits, instability and working conditions, while staff members are complacent, overpaid and are more interested in advancing their position than serving the population that they are paid to help.

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Inter-American Development Bank Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’d love to learn more about your experience and how we can improve. The IDB is a place where people who are committed and passionate about improving lives in Latin America and the Caribbean get to do what they love in a diverse, collaborative, and stimulating work environment.

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Pros

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

Cons

There is bureaucracy across the organization. Vertical career progression can be slow.

2.0
Jun 3, 2026
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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 Outdated development agency.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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