Inter-American Development Bank reviews

Poor management focused on short term goals; professional development is contingent to personal sympathies and hidden agendas that make it hard for professionals to be in a predictable career path. More specifically, the matrix system (countries/themes) subjects staff to contradictory instructions from two different tiers of supervisors, who have their own individual agendas. That undermines the success of any program. On top of that, the bureaucratic culture of the bank makes it hard to promote cutting edge programs, except for the work done at BID-LAB. Some colleagues are very uncooperative and extremely "territorial".

There isn't great job security (I was offered a buyout in a sudden downsizing prompted by a change in government of a donor country). The corporate culture is insular and prefers employees from Latin America and the Caribbean.