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Best onboarding experience ever - Director National Fire Protection Association Employee Review

5.0
Mar 29, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Everyone is really nice and supportive. Organization is in the middle of a transformation so there’s a lot of exciting opportunities to help increase its impact on the world by modernizing it’s work and products. I am new to the organization and I’ve been very impressed with the care they take to be transparent about the strengths and challenges of the organization and it’s current transformation. Their approach to assimilation for a leader is by far the best experience I’ve ever had in my career in turns of helping me get to know the organization and it’s people.

Cons

This organization is not to be judged by the cover. In many ways, it feels like a 120 year old nonprofit organization. In many more ways it feels like a 120 year old start up. You cannot come in an expect everything to be figured out because we are trying to reimagine it all. So if you’re looking for a large well established feel then this will surprise you.

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Pros

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Cons

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Recommend
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Pros

The payscale NFPA uses means that people tend to get paid pretty well.

Cons

The environment is highly toxic, starting with the CEO. He's great at speaking and seeming like he cares about people and the company when presenting publicly, but he's a very different, mean-spirited person in more private meetings. Nothing pleases him more than attacking others and getting those around him to agree that he is always "directionally correct," which is a term I've never heard before or since, but heard all the time from the VPs. If anyone has to deal with him or the sycophants he's hired around him in the C-suite, your time at NFPA will likely be miserable. If you don't have to deal with them, you might be OK at NFPA.

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