Cautiously optimistic - Anonymous employee Sama Employee Review

5.0
Nov 1, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

This organization is outcomes driven; constantly striving to evaluate and re-evaluate how to deepen and broaden impact. Impact sourcing is hard, especially in a competitive environment. However, the desire to continue experimenting, investing, succeeding and sometimes failing, makes this an incredibly inspiring place to work. I am consistently amazed at the maturity and caliber of talent this organization has.

Cons

Working in a budget constrained environment can be challenging. With a mission as broad as solving poverty, it can be tempting to lose focus and drive too many initiatives.

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Sama Response
9y
This review really strikes a chord because I've been unfocused in the past and, with input from the management team, trying to learn from our collective experience -- we had to divest some initiatives that weren't tightly aligned with our core "give work" model. We've been promoting from within a lot more in the last year, with key roles in sales, project management, communications, and operations developed from our existing talent pool of amazing people. Thank you for believing in us!

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