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Environmental Defense Fund

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Environmental Defense Fund reviews

4.2

90% would recommend to a friend

(272 total reviews)
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Fred Krupp

80% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Environmental Defense Fund has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 272 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Environmental Defense Fund employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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272 reviews
4.0
Feb 1, 2024
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Pros

Great staff: knowledgable, friendly, passionate. Very flexible work/life balance. Decent benefit package.

Cons

Leadership is: - old and out of touch - hires great people but doesn't trust them to do their jobs - bending to the will of a few billionaire donors rather than a wider, younger base

3.0
Feb 14, 2019

Not great

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Pros

-Really passionate colleagues -Lots of opportunity to learn and really dive into environmental issues -Pretty good work life balance -Typically flexible with wfh

Cons

-Upper management is insanely bureaucratic, and HR is basically a revolving door -You basically need to have taken on extra work for 6 months-1 year before you'll get a promotion. There's an expectation that you have to "prove" you can do it, instead of going off of previous works and merits -Pay isn't great -Internal candidates are not prioritized at all for open roles. I know of multiple people who applied to a different internal positions on another team and never even heard from HR, or heard that they weren't continuing with interviews. These are your colleagues! Where is the courtesy of a 2 second email? -Expectation for a lot of travel in low budget situations (ie sharing a hotel room with a colleague). Not to mention the hypocrisy of upper management flying across the country for a one day meeting...

3.0
Oct 16, 2018

Half great, half not so great

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Pros

Great perks and benefits, most people are awesome. Good opportunity for work life balance. My team was a group of amazing people.

Cons

The lack of diversity is unfortunate. There is no growth potential for staff hired at lower levels. Senior leadership just don't care about what happens to low level staff. HR has blown through people like toilet paper, Finance is a hot mess, and Fred refuses to address any of these issues.

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