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IT - Anonymous employee Gates Foundation Employee Review

3.0
Jun 8, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great mission. Great Benefits. Employees genuinely want to do the right thing.

Cons

Constant re-orgs that lead to change fatigue. IT specifically, is now on our third CIO (one CDO) just in the last 4 years. It's hard to find challenging and compelling work in IT. It's easy to feel disconnected to the programmatic work when working in IT or other operations teams.

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Gates Foundation Response
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I'm sorry you are having some negative experiences within our IT function. Would you like to discuss how we can do better within your function. The work that our IT team does is so critical to the success of our organization and hope that you experience positive change with Sue Taylor as our CIO.

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