Inter-American Development Bank reviews

The Bank seems to follow an agenda that varies depending on who is in key positions. Unfortunately, not everyone in such key positions is qualified to do their job. Sometimes, more often than not, people get promoted to managerial positions for arbitrary reasons that act agains the supposed principles of this organization. If you are an idealist person you probably will not be working here. After a while, people work here for the benefits, it is a comfortable job, hard to get fired, but hard to do a good job. Very political.

- Highly politicized environment - Bad work environment - Does not run background investigation on academic degrees and previous work, so several people lie about their qualifications to get hired - Development of the countries they serve is not the main focus of the Bank, and service is not the main focus of projects rather than political decisions and personal interest - Consultants the ones who do 90% of the work have no benefits so ever, not even health insurance. Huge difference in salary compared with staff. - If you are an American you have to pay taxes - Research practices are questionable. Staff hires internal consultants to do the work, and internal consultants employ external consultants to do the job. Staff and internal consultants stamp their name and receive credit for the publications, but they don't write the papers and give no credit to external consultants. Ghost author for most of their writings - People would like to stay at the office for more than 10 hours per day, not sure they are productive. They will judge you if you leave the office on time. - Do not respect peoples private life or their own time.