Alright, so I've waited long enough to absolve the hatred I've had for this place over the last decade and I believe I can now provide a relatively unbiased review at this point.
Short and simple: The company doesn't care about its employees, you're a replaceable data point, a mindless drone, a cog in a machine masquerading as a public health company. In reality, NSF is just another for-profit meat grinder with significantly compromised morals and a “can-do” attitude, meaning “we CAN and we WILL do anything to protect our bottom line”.
Long and detailed: Where to start? I began my career as a bright eyed, bushy tailed undergraduate and thought “Hey, look at this upstanding public health company! Now that’s a place I can grow as a professional without having any of the corporate life-sucking negatives you’d experience at those pesky for-profit places”. Well, my first position at NSF
1.) Consistently lied to me about career advancement opportunities.
2.) Explicitly hired external candidates without offering internal interviews.
3.) Stated “At any point if you want to leave, just know that I can find 15+ applicants to fill your position by next week”.
And all of that was within the first year working there. After some upward movement (to nobody’s credit but my own, while explicitly ignoring some of the “advice” given to me by my “managers”), I began to realize that this company might be a bit too focused on greenery (and I don’t mean preserving the environment).
By the end of it, I had developed a not so easily replaceable skill-set (while being drastically underpaid), and accumulated enough knowledge to be an asset to my department. When I received another offer, I decided “Hey, my team might struggle without me so maybe I can negotiate a better salary” so I pitched the idea, I was literally laughed at for even asking.
So here I am, happy working elsewhere and making SIGNIFICANTLY more doing so, given all the turnaround, I wonder how that bottom line looks now?
