Interesting work but not without business challenges - Anonymous employee RTI International Employee Review

4.0
Aug 14, 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work is extremely interesting and socially valuable; staff in general are extremely collegial

Cons

Communication across offices was difficult -- Waltham is a spoke and RDU is definitely the hub of all important decision making. This posed a number of problems in recruitment of new staff -- often the wage/salary dynamics of the RDU market dominated the thinking rather than what it takes to hire into the Boston market. For some kinds of positions that doesn't matter, but for more commercially focused work the wage/salary disparity between the two regions was striking. It made it nearly impossible to recruit staff at an acceptable comp level.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Colleagues were usually respectful, hardworking, and competent. Pre-Covid, the RTP campus was a vibrant and collaborative working environment. Some of the (mostly Federal) contracts provided for interesting research and work.

Cons

Perhaps put too many eggs in USAID contract and Federal social sciences baskets. Org's strength used to be hard sciences. RTI's strength was its organizational culture which was severely undermined by the decision to allow almost anyone to work remotely Upper management bends too much to a vocal and political few, helping to sour an excellent working environment. Many faithful and valuable employees now distrust senior management.

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