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American Heart Association

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American Heart Association reviews

4.2

80% would recommend to a friend

(1,699 total reviews)
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Nancy A. Brown

90% approve of CEO

81% positive business outlook

American Heart Association has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,699 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The American Heart Association employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Jun 8, 2015

Difficult corporate culture

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Pros

Great mission. They invest money wisely.

Cons

No career path No training Corporate culture is toxic Insane turnover I didn't realize until after I left how bad the corporate culture was. I had become accustomed to it and didn't realize the stress and worry that was being placed on me from management. You spend so much time analyzing what you are going to say and how it will be accepted, that it paralyzes you into micro analyzing your every word. As a manager, if anything you said was taken negatively by an employee you were punished for it. Try to imagine correcting a bunch of underperforming employees and you will start to realize how difficult this can be. In addition, the organization itself has a hard time admitting its own weaknesses, so when they are brought up and you attempt to deal with them, you are punished politically internally, and looked upon as someone who is weak. Moreover, there is a script to go by when dealing with management. Say the right things and you are rewarded. Go off script and try to deal with issues head on, you are punished. Management is obsessed with hiring personality types instead of people of substance. If you are not a smiling, fake laughing, hotwired personality, you are looked upon as having a bad attitude and negative. Results alone will not improve your standing. The job is super sales focused. though performance objectives are very aggressive, they are straight forward.

1.0
Sep 30, 2014
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Pros

Great mission - saving lives

Cons

Senior Management is the worst I've experienced at any company. There is no accountability, only finger-pointing and scapegoats (at the lower levels). It's not what you know, it's who you know. If you do your job well, they will try to get you to do everyone else's job, and if you can't do your job - brown nose enough and you'll get promoted. Turn over rate is high and growing. Much of the outstanding efforts by the non-management employees, goes unnoticed and unappreciated; while many managers take the credit. Micro-management permeates this organization.

1.0
Jun 24, 2020

Stay Away from here

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Pros

Overpaid senior executives in national and affiliate offices

Cons

Stay away form the AHA if you are in development. This organization lacks any vision or intelligence when it comes to development. They are outdated in their methodologies and tactics. They are run by a network of women that if you are not in their club you are not listened to. They do not take input and think so highly of themselves (senior management). They treat donors like they are cash machines and beat up development staff f they do not get unrealistic increases from donors regardless of the situation. They need a board of directors to come in and clean house. They are poorly run and their organizational structure is a waste of donor money. They have bloated market staffs and an affiliate structure that is in place only to create high paying jobs for the top people that do nothing and add nothing to the bottom line.. A first year MBA student could add millions to the research side of the house (which is good) to help fight heart disease just be reorganizing the AHA. It will not happen because of the high paid "leaders"...haha. It is no different than our political system in that way.

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