Pretty decent place to work - Anonymous employee AARP Employee Review

4.0
Sep 27, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Who can argue with a 35 hour work week, a great mission statement and membership base, and some great benefits. They provide alot of training to their employees throughout the year, which helps you network with other employees. It's located near the metro, plus they have flexible work hours. It has to be one of the better places I have worked at but lack of job opportunities/challenges will make you consider trading all those pros.

Cons

I would say opportunities for advancement are slim. So make sure you are happy with the job you're applying for because there will be an internal line to get behind for any job openings that occur. So units have been under constant reorg so you will find some stressed out individauls. It's located right in DC, which can be great for lunch variety but they hire from DC pool of talent so it's sort of like Metro :( at times.

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5.0
May 28, 2026
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Pros

great benefits even for interns like free lunch, reimbursed parking, hybrid work. good opportunities to network, hone your skills, and potentially get a permanent role within the organization.

Cons

long onboarding. lots of hr training.

2.0
Apr 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

benefits are strong - pension, vacation, sick, caregiving work life balance is generally good

Cons

AARP suffers from a serious toxic work culture, particularly in the IT and Digital Transformation departments. Leadership is atrocious. People leading the 2 key technology functions for the business are incompetent and ego maniacs. Both departments are extremely toxic with burned out employees and contractors. Money gets wasted in the extreme due to these factors. Constant signal switching on projects and priorities. Everyone you work with is unhappy. Bullying and retaliation are common. Avoid these departments in particular, but the whole organization is top heavy, with terrible leadership all around. Still there are some great and talented people, but it's not the norm, and senior leadership is wrought with incompetence and arrogance. The organization flails around endlessly, and blows money with no discipline or rigor to their work and methods. Think someone is juicing the Glassdoor numbers with people saying the place is great. No opportunity for growth. The organization tries to do good work, and does in many ways, but it's so poorly run that it severely hampers its potential.

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