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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
3.0
Feb 14, 2019

Not great

Recommend
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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...

4.0
Feb 10, 2019

Good experience

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Inspiring mission and dedicated colleagues

Cons

With organizational growth comes some growing pains

4.0
Jan 10, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the best people I've ever worked around. Both kind and impressive professional backgrounds. If you are highly interested in environmental issues, this is the place to be.

Cons

Difficult to make your way up if you are working as an administrator. If you are a scientist, economist, lawyer or environmental expert, than you will make out just fine. People who are just starting out will want to consider getting their masters, MBA and/or PhD before making their way up the ladder here.

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