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3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(4,619 total reviews)
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Gail McGovern

69% approve of CEO

47% positive business outlook

American Red Cross has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 4,619 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The American Red Cross 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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5K reviews
4.0
Jul 7, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

You make the difference in so many patients lives-- very rewarding; very flexible schedule; no micro managing unless you need it.

Cons

It is non- profit. So, very little money compared with other corporations. You work with a very small budget. Last pay increase was over 2 years ago.

1.0
Jul 1, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

-you get paid to travel, if it takes an hour to get to the job site, you get that hour at your pay rate -coworkers can be fun -when it's slow, you get paid to do nothing

Cons

-for a job thats supposed to be non-profit, they sure care a lot about making money -management blatantly just does not care about employees -rules rules rules rules rules -pay is only ok -when it's busy, it feels like a constant dinner rush at a fast food restaurant -rarely does someone compliment you on your hard work, most people (donors, sponsors, management, donor recruitment, everyone) looks at us like gears in a machine. -late ending drive (not home till 10) followed by a start time of 6 AM the next day. -drives are constantly understaffed, goals seem to be set unrealistically -I'm a male, so it rarely effects me, but some coworkers constantly gossip about each other, and go out of their ways to make each others lives miserable. -management tries to get you to work harder by using guilt and fear. -constantly given new "best practices" and "corrective actions" to fix an error rate of literally .001% (a "trend" is when 4 or more "problems" are detected in a couple of months, when we can do as many as 4000 procedures a month) -staff are treated as children, with constant micromanagement, and tons of rules, by management that has absolutely no idea how the process works. - (non-needle/blood bag) equipment is outdated and sometimes downright broken, making the easy part of the job sometimes harder than necessary. -constantly told "you're helping to save lives!" to try and make the work experience seem worth it all, but actions speak louder than words.

3.0
Jun 30, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Allows one to connect to the highest ideals of service and comfort to others when most needed. Consequenty, have met some of the most compassionate and dedicated people here...volunteers and employees.

Cons

Well-meaning, but short-sighted and often contradictory strategies for change are delivered without a thoroughly developed game to get us all to the end goal. The most critical information that sets the context for needed change is now privy to a fewer number of constituents. Communications are often mixed messages, leading to further confusion and disengagement of those who desperately want to be involved and support the effort.

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