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Updated Dec 29, 2022
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- "Management is clueless how to address issues such as lack of staff development, cross" (in 5 reviews)
- Current Employee, less than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Great mission. Dedicated staff. Challenging and meaningful work.
Cons
Pos or neg experience depends on your team.
- Former Employee, more than 8 years★★★★★
Awesome Mission, Many Fabulous Colleagues, Terrible Leadership
Aug 31, 2022 - Senior Technical Advisor in Washington, DCRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
The SRHR mission is what keeps everyone going, and the organization has many wonderful, collaborative people in it who are a pleasure to work with.
Cons
Sadly, the very top leadership behave in a highly insecure way, lacks transparency, and has pushed away many of its wisest, most ethical, capable and passionate professionals. As many current and past employees have noted, loyalty and short lived facades of glamour and promise are what has been rewarded and promoted into many positions of leadership by the CEO the last few years (not all but too many). This has led to terrible morale, and the crumbling of what used to be a collaborative workplace full of satisfied, competent people. While there are still many wonderful employees, they often keep their great ideas to themselves because opposition has been consistently punished. I would not recommend joining this organization as a new employee. Find a better option if you care about your own well being.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Benefits are good and there is a work life balance
Cons
Please run as fast as you can. I don't recommend working here for more than a year or you will go nuts. It is an awful place. Senior management are bullies. They will discourage you and put you down at every opportunity.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Great Mission - disorganized
Aug 24, 2022 - Sr. Manager, OperationsRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Helping women and youth in underserved communities
Cons
Very disorganized and constantly changing leaders
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Hoping the board will save pathfinder…
Nov 8, 2021 - Anonymous EmployeeRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Great mission, smart and dedicated staff, good benefits
Cons
Culture of retaliation and silence under current CEO. The message of board chair to employees seemed to be that loyalty is more important than transparency. It seems that anyone who speaks up is fired eventually. Laid off employees required to sign NDAs to get severance so that they can’t share negative experiences. Technical staff fired for speaking up. Also heard rumors of plans to reach out to former employees current employers (who didn’t sign NDAs) to complain about their negative posts about pathfinder. No legitimate response to the claims raised in recent articles. Can’t keep their talking points straight (ie saying the former board members didn’t want the report on founder released and then admitting the reverse was true). When management talks about these current challenges they mention George Floyd and diversity but don’t make a connection between the two issues. Seem like they are creating a facade of diversity and localization without real inclusion. We are told to move on from report on founder but why were investigation/report done if not to reckon with the orgs history?
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Flexible schedule, excellent pay, most staff are friendly, great mission
Cons
More internal structure is needed. Too many meetings about the next meeting
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
The mission, the passionate people in the countries, and those dedicated to the mission
Cons
It’s sad to read about Pathfinder the country offices must think the U.S. is out of their minds and the current situation is damaging Pathfinder mission and distracting from the important work that must be done. The last chief of HR, was doing important work and people were feeling positive at PI, it started to go down hill after she left. The current President is a cold, unfeeling human being, who has no depth or connection to the mission. Very passionate technical people were fired, they were catalysts for bringing all the amazing technical work together to share learnings across all the locations. HR is a mess, moral is low and the Board chair is an embarrassment.
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
Lots of learning, but little career progression
Mar 19, 2022 - Officer in Washington, DCRecommendCEO ApprovalBusiness OutlookPros
Many opportunities to take on new leadership opportunities
Cons
Little transparency around promotions; work-life balance not optimal
- Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Good coffee set up (in the office). Love the assortment of milk choices. And you get a paycheck.
Cons
Ready. Set. Fight! Round 1: People I have never seen such consistent unprofessional behavior. The place is full of bullies. Unfortunately this behavior is not reserved for the top tier employees. It will be in your face, everyday, sitting next to you. Raise your hand to say something is nuts and YOU are now an issue and over-reactive. Hello gaslighting. Round 2: Jobs are Moving Pathfinder launched a "Country Led, Country Owned" initiative of which one aspect is to move as many jobs as possible out of the US. If you are in the US, there is no point in joining just to lose your job within a year or less. Round 3: The Work Day to day tasks are bogged down by the overwhelming need for buy in and agreement. This gives immense stress and anguish to anyone trying to do a good day's work. No-one will make a decision for fear of hurting someone's feelings so EVERYTHING gets elevated to an exhaustive degree. Also the management team likes to do re-orgs every 6-8 weeks so who knows what your work will look like month to month. KO Knock Out. Fatality! Great place to test your mental and emotional strength. Make sure you have a therapist on speed dial and may the odds be ever in your favor.
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
Awesome of day to day dealings
Cons
Working overtime to make sure customers were satisfied
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Pathfinder International has an overall rating of 3.3 out of 5, based on over 154 reviews left anonymously by employees. 58% of employees would recommend working at Pathfinder International to a friend and 58% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has improved by 9% over the last 12 months.
58% of Pathfinder International employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews. Employees also rated Pathfinder International 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.3 for culture and values and 3.1 for career opportunities.
According to reviews on Glassdoor, employees commonly mention the pros of working at Pathfinder International to be workplace, benefits, coworkers and the cons to be management, career development, senior leadership.
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