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Inter-American Development Bank

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Great exposure but treat their consultants pretty bad. Promotion based on personal connections. - Consultant Inter-American Development Bank Employee Review

3.0
Oct 14, 2011
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Pros

Fantastic chance to gain exposure to development issues in the region, work with good budgets, exposed to interesting issues. There are many people at the IDB that are extremely intelligent and work very hard, but due to the bureaucratic structure these people are swimming upstream and probably doing all the work of those around them.

Cons

IDB organizational economics is based on consultants doing all the work so that the staff can do very little. The Bank is not a meritocracy: promotion is based on personal connections or even nationality. The more you work, the less likely you are to be promoted. IDB is primarily a political organization so nice to stay if you make a good bureaucrat, but pretty frustrating if you are dedicated to technical excellence and hard work.

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Pros

Excellent benefits, culture and opportunity to make a real impact.

Cons

There is bureaucracy across the organization. Vertical career progression can be slow.

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Pros

You get to work with elitist Spanish speaking Latin Americans who are xenophobic for people that speak other languages, who have processes, paper pushing and career progression as major objective, not real development outcomes (eradicate extreme poverty & improve quality of life in LAC).

Cons

Bureaucracy. Outdated development agency. Abusive to and misclassifying contractors. People who don’t know what they are doing or talking about. Delivers trash projects and pulls impoverished countries further into national debt. Technocratic and too much focus on metrics, not impoverished people’s lived experience.

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