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Environmental Defense Fund

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Not great - Program Coordinator Environmental Defense Fund Employee Review

3.0
Feb 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

-Really passionate colleagues -Lots of opportunity to learn and really dive into environmental issues -Pretty good work life balance -Typically flexible with wfh

Cons

-Upper management is insanely bureaucratic, and HR is basically a revolving door -You basically need to have taken on extra work for 6 months-1 year before you'll get a promotion. There's an expectation that you have to "prove" you can do it, instead of going off of previous works and merits -Pay isn't great -Internal candidates are not prioritized at all for open roles. I know of multiple people who applied to a different internal positions on another team and never even heard from HR, or heard that they weren't continuing with interviews. These are your colleagues! Where is the courtesy of a 2 second email? -Expectation for a lot of travel in low budget situations (ie sharing a hotel room with a colleague). Not to mention the hypocrisy of upper management flying across the country for a one day meeting...

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Pros

Professional development seminars, lots of contact with supervisors, nice office space, flexible hybrid schedule

Cons

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3.0
Jun 1, 2026
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Pros

A community of mission-driven staff who truly care about the planet and the causes that EDF advances. Extremely smart and kind staff. Incredible benefits, including a significant amount of company days off (summer Fridays, org shut-down for one week at the end of August, days off include Veteran's Day and Juneteenth); very generous benefits.

Cons

Out-of-touch top leadership, especially Executive Director, who pretends to be authentic and caring but isn't at all.

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