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Good mission in an OK place to work - Project Assistant Inter-American Development Bank Employee Review

3.0
Aug 30, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

- Feeling of fulfillment from having a job that is making positive impacts in developing countries - Strong community feeling, especially if you're from Latin America and new to the city. Most likely some co-workers, within and outside your direct team, will become friends.

Cons

- Extreme bureaucracy and hierarchies, often resulting in delays and inefficiencies - Slow processes - Extreme formality in internal communications - Contractual policies discriminate consultants, which make most of the staff body, in terms of benefits and job security in the mid and long terms - Very hard to impossible to escalate between contracts - In general, not the best salaries

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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We work every day to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean, and strive to offer a rewarding and positive experience to all our employees.

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5.0
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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 Outdated development agency.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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