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2.8

47% would recommend to a friend

(40 total reviews)
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Jeremy Anderson

51% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

National Math and Science Initiative has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 40 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The National Math and Science Initiative employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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40 reviews
1.0
Sep 15, 2023

Awful senior leadership

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Pros

A few good folks there

Cons

Every few years the senior leadership leads a restructure, letting go more junior level team members while protecting their grossly overpaid positions. Until/unless there is a regime change of the Leadership Team, specifically the President and the COO, the organization will continue to flail and eventually cease to exist once its funding reserves eventually run out. There is very little innovation, modernization, or understanding of how to serve the field. This is a classic example of a non-profit that exists for the sole purpose of keeping itself alive. Impact is hardly a consideration. Avoid joining this sinking ship.

3.0
May 26, 2015

disorganized

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Location, good pay, great mission

Cons

Employees are unmotivated Disorganized Politics in the office

1.0
Sep 6, 2023

Black women don't matter here

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Pros

Kind and caring coworkers from Directors on down. Admirable vision if they ever follow through.

Cons

COO and President reorganize every year, but no changes ever happen on the leadership level. There is a new CEO as of August 2023. Since 2016 there have been 3 CEOs. This org has and continues to be an unsafe place for black women, as the COO pretends to care for black women, but always ostracizes and blames them for everything. The last reorg fired two thirds of the black women at the org - the same women who spoke out a few months earlier at a company retreat. Then they hired a black women to lead DEI efforts. Interesting timing. There is ZERO upward mobility unless you are white. This is a very conservative organization that likes to use liberal catch phrases and buzzwords to gain funding, but they never actually make any impact in the communities they say they are serving. Unless you like feeling like you are in the sunken place all the time, do not work here if you are a member of a marginalized group. They plan based on hypothetical grants they "may" receive, and when they don't they cut jobs and "revisit salary scales". They have not given out bonuses since COVID and they have cut back on all of their employee incentives, nor are they supportive if you say you are getting an advanced degree.

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