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Rainforest Alliance reviews

3.9

81% would recommend to a friend

(162 total reviews)

Santiago Gowland

75% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Rainforest Alliance has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 162 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Rainforest Alliance employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Agriculture industry (3.7 stars).

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162 reviews
2.0
Jan 21, 2023

Unprepared to achieve desired impact

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Pros

I worked with some amazing people at RA and was lucky to have very good leaders on my team who lead with positivity and compassion for their reports. The time off is above average.

Cons

Strategy communications are VERY opaque. They focus almost entirely on theory of change and not at all on operations or implementation. Different departments have competing objectives, and some teams unfortunately have toxic leaders that I witnessed deliberately engaging in the undermining other teams (withholding information, failure to complete agreed deliverables, reneging on commitments). Managerial oversight is lacking at RA and many people are unreliable when it comes to deliverables. I had some colleagues working other jobs and as a result, were often unavailable. Others just didn't show up and were impossible to reach. When failures happened, they were completely overlooked. Leadership is not mature. Most senior directors and above seemed out of their depth. I was at RA for 5 years, and during 4 of those years my work was very day by day due to the lack of strategic direction and organizational guidance coming from the top down.

1.0
Jun 30, 2016

Worst place i have ever worked...

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Pros

Somewhat competitive benefits but that's it...

Cons

This was my first experience in a non profit... after it, it made me hate the whole non-profit world, Top Levels were disrespectful to employees, bulling them for their opinions about the organization and HR was like non-existent. definitely the worst place i worked in years!

1.0
Sep 30, 2013

Great mission but employees are setup to fail!

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Pros

There is great work that is being done by the people on the ground, period! Unfortunately I can only justify my pros to the better half of the organization since there is a significant divide with upper management.

Cons

As for the other half, there is tremendous turn-over rate, where fixing things is not achievable when all the people you work with is constantly leaving and changing priorities. Every decision has to be approved by the CFO, who is always unavailable and god forbid if you make a decision, you are then punished and on your way out. Most staff are hired as managers with little or no staff or resources since their one job is equivalent to 3 roles, so they end up doing everything and not one thing well. Some areas are really bad to a point that you are expected to commit working everyday till after 9 pm since everyday is an emergency. Upper management does not value their staff and instead of investing in their current employees, they rather hire new people and set you up to quit. They would lie, cheat and stab their staff in the back once they feel they are done with you. Out of all the places I have worked in, this was the worst professional environment.

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