A cesspool of infighting and incompetence - Manager Breakthrough T1D Employee Review

2.0
May 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Smart, dedicated staff working hard to find ways to cure, prevent and treat type 1 diabetes. Compensation and benefits are quite good for the industry, with excellent (but expensive) health insurance and generous PTO. The Research and Events groups do excellent work.

Cons

The atmosphere at the NYC national office is as toxic a work environment as any I've ever seen. The Marketing and Communications group is a disorganized mess characterized by a "mean girls" ethos, political infighting, lack of direction and failure of leadership. Competent managers could turn it around, but they've chased all the decent ones away. Managerial churn just confuses everybody.

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Breakthrough T1D Response
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Thanks so much for providing this feedback. We completely agree that one of JDRF's greatest strengths is our amazing, smart, dedicated staff... all working to cure T1D! We'd sincerely love to talk to you and hear more about your concerns if you're open to that. Please email us at talentacquisition@jdrf.org if you'd like to talk.

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