Pros
1. it offers an unparalleled opportunity to have impact at scale - early in your career, you will be working on projects that can significantly improve conservation outcomes at a state/national/international level 2. Incredibly smart, motivated and well-meaning colleagues who are fun to be around 3. Lots of internal mobility! You can have many careers within a lifetime within TNC and change your area of expertise as well
Cons
1. Highly decentralized, which means that Teams are often working on repetitive projects without talking to each other. 2. Too much emphasis on fundraising 3. Not enough emphasis on whether our work scales 4. Major lack of people of color and women in real positions of power, though they are trying to improve it 5. Not enough middle management capacity 6. Too much work is outsources to consultants since we lack internal strategic capacity