Pathfinder International Reviews

Pros

Great mission. Dedicated staff. Challenging and meaningful work.

Cons

Pos or neg experience depends on your team.

Pros

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.

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.

Pros

Helping women and youth in underserved communities

Cons

Very disorganized and constantly changing leaders

Pros

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?

Pros

Flexible schedule, excellent pay, most staff are friendly, great mission

Cons

More internal structure is needed. Too many meetings about the next meeting

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.

Pros

Many opportunities to take on new leadership opportunities

Cons

Little transparency around promotions; work-life balance not optimal

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.

Pros

Awesome of day to day dealings

Cons

Working overtime to make sure customers were satisfied