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Appalachian Mountain Club reviews

3.1

50% would recommend to a friend

(113 total reviews)

John D. Judge

5% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Appalachian Mountain Club has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 113 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Appalachian Mountain Club 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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113 reviews
1.0
Dec 2, 2017

Avoid the Boston office

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Pros

Good co-workers, benefits and mission

Cons

Awful, self-serving management that aspires to be more corporate when that means treating employees like overworked, easily replaced commodities, but uses its nonprofit status to excuse low wages, poor infrastructure and insufficient staffing. I second another reviewer's comment that other locations seem less dysfunctional, and some managers treat their teams professionally (conservation and finance come to mind). But generally speaking, the Boston office is an unpleasant environment in which to work. They oust long-term employees and replace them with temps and contractors. In a recent round of layoffs, they gave the affected employees an hour to get out--including someone who had been there more than a decade--and their health coverage ended that day. Nice.

1.0
Nov 10, 2017

Stop trying to make AMC something that its not

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Pros

Great co-workers, great work/life balance, good benefits

Cons

Where to begin... Terrible pay, no respect for employees, CEO is a joke. The CEO and leadership team of this organization have really gone down hill. This is an old conservation non-profit with an amazing history and great mission, and the CEO and senior management want it to be a young, hip, fortune 500 company. AMC recently moved to a new building in Charlestown because we ran out of space on Beacon Hill. This is a joke. The new office is small, sterile, nothing works, and we paid wayyyyy too much. No one is happy. Employees are getting laid off left and right for no apparent reason. The only explanation is that the CEO and senior management wants to take AMC "into the future." Meanwhile they're screwing over all the remaining employees who now have triple the work. Theres no respect for employees or their work or the fact that most people took pay cuts to work here. If they're not careful everyone is going to jump ship

3.0
Mar 22, 2018

Disorganized leadership team destroying employee morale

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Pros

Great perks - free stays at huts & lodges; pro-deals with outdoor gear companies; hard-working and committed employees who are at their wits' end

Cons

CEO and Leadership Team have no interest in fixing the problems. It is constantly on to the next thing that the CEO' wants to do to beef up his resume. Overspent on Maine lodge and new office and everyone else is now held to the fire, leaving critically important jobs (fundraising, membership) unfilled to stop the money hemoragghing. CFO is a joke, non-responsive. New CMO is face-first in her phone, doesn't even attend her own department strategic planning retreat, yet she gets to hire many new staff - what are they actually DOING?

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