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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
2.0
Sep 26, 2018

Mismanagement of resources

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Pros

The pay is above market value Many of the people working there are great The kitchen is fully stocked and open to anyone The new CEO will hopefully change things for the better The mission is great. Almost too great to be led by some of the people working there

Cons

Senior level managers are past due for a change. Many are unprofessional and unpredictable lacking management skills better than first-time shift leaders at fast food restaurants. Work place bullying is normal, mass firings are regular, and the culture created by that instability does harm to a lot of genuinely great people at the organization. The amount of money wasted (hiring people for one role, compensating them astronomically, then giving them secretarial work or mismanaging them to the point where they don’t get the opportunity to think for themselves) should be considered a fireable offense and if left unchecked, will be their downfall. I feel the most sorry for the non-senior level employees. They deserve so much better than they get.

1.0
Jan 30, 2015

Terrible leadership, staff PTSD, nepotism

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Pros

The mission is very lofty and the majority of the staff are friendly.

Cons

There is no leadership. The company presents an image of success, but have had 2 rounds of massive layoffs in the past 2 years due to financial mismanagement. The surviving staff joke about making it to the next week. HR has been slowly eroding benefits and there is zero internal communication. A staff member died and it was only "officially" addressed after the rumor mill had made it unavoidable.

3.0
Apr 20, 2023
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Pros

Good health care benefits; great coworkers

Cons

The org is incredibly top heavy; lots of bottlenecks within the org that go ignored and unaddressed while pushing for growth; not much room for upward mobility; capable people get overlooked for promotions & management hires from without.

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