Internews reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(99 total reviews)

Jeanne Bourgault

89% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Internews has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 99 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Internews 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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99 reviews
1.0
May 12, 2021

Horrible supervisor and work environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Internews does provide the opportunity to work across the globe with various people.

Cons

Deserves no stars. Unfortunately, Internews has some terrible supervisors who are new to managing a team but have zero experience on how to be leaders. This person only knows how to tell the employees what to do but can't train or guide them properly. Internews pride itself on its core values “Bring Optimism and Excitement, we approach our work with enthusiasm and love what we do". I did not once experience enthusiasm; I only experienced a condescending tone, and aggression when spoken to by my superior. There was no point in informing HR. They only took the side of the senior staff. There is a lot of favoritism and gossiping that goes on between the supervisor and other team members. Overall, this place was a terrible place to work. There is no work-life balance. Just a horrible work environment by the way upper management treats new employees.

2.0
Mar 24, 2024
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Pros

The people that aren’t in Senior Leadership are amazing to work with, a lot of them have very interesting stories. You can work from home most of the time. Interesting work.

Cons

Senior Leadership is old and white and there’s little to no opportunity for young, diverse people to be in leadership positions. Much of mid level and senior management still have outdated perspectives on international development and almost always, leadership refused to make any internal statements on traumatic international events that took place where many of our friends and colleagues worked. They’ve tried and failed on multiple occasions to build effective organizational change and establish healthy norms around DEI and almost every department is overworked and underpaid. I watched three people of color get fired from my team over one year for a failure to meet “performance metrics,” however not a single department uses effective KPIs to define what that means. There are little to no opportunities for professional development and promotions feel very much based on relationships rather than performance. It IS an NGO so maybe that’s just a symptom of the industry.

2.0
Nov 22, 2023

Interesting work. Poor culture.

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Pros

Remote culture, decent healthcare benefits.

Cons

The culture is gossipy. Career opportunity and mobility seem to be entirely based on personal relationships.

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