Great exposure and resume builder but lots of glass ceilings. - Information Systems Assistant IMF Employee Review

4.0
Mar 24, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Front seat to global economic policy work, diverse staff, good benefits relative to traditional US firms. Management is trying hard to work on diversity within the institution but it's a stubborn and risk-averse work force. It's a very lean organization at the bottom but very heavy at the top. So there is no shortage of work or opportunity but this has significant downsides.

Cons

Glass ceilings: : graduate education, education pedigree, nationality, gender, and especially age - if you're young and haven't done graduate studies yet, don't stick around. Sink or swim culture - and proud of it. Very traditional/regressive culture: women need to talk passively and persuasively to be heard, young people (anyone under 40 is called young - under 30 you are treated as a child) are expected and are sometimes told to just sit and listen, a substantive amount are homophobic, and how well you speak and persuade often times matters more than your actual ideas - and this hurts you if you are not a native/fluent English speaker and/or do not speak up for yourself confidently. Worst of all - it is the most hierarchical place I've ever seen.

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5.0
Jul 15, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

I've been working here for about two years now. They're good people, trying to do good work.

Cons

Very low maturity in product, tech, and UX. Extremely hierarchical, to the point where it's obstructive -- but hey, that's what you get with places like these.

4.0
Jul 18, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good platform and exposure to macroeconomic policy

Cons

little mobility as an RA

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