Rainforest Alliance reviews

1. Don’t work here if you are a woman, as sexual harassment is tolerated. HR is ill-equipped and/or unwilling to address employee rights in a meaningful way, resulting in constant turnover. 2. Don’t expect any advancement as a young person. You will learn what you possibly can in a year and realize that the organization protects only senior authority. So a real resume builder in that sense. Enjoy your cost-of-living raise. 3. Don’t expect your voice to be heard as someone under the management level - RA is set in stone about polices and procedures on how to run it which only benefits those above the manager level. 4. Get a manager that favors you! As those who don’t get favored are thrown under the bus, and again, leave in under a year. 5. Does not care about the environment as much as you think it does. RA flies dozens of employees around the world every month and does not track its carbon footprint - although it considers itself an organization that is fighting climate change. It also partners and accepts donations from organizations with troublesome environmental records.

Unclear vision - the only consistent piece of the organization’s new strategy was that it was constantly changing, and seemed to have no real direction. Also, every communication from leadership is couched in jargon. This is an issue with the organization at large — very poor at communicating its mission to external stakeholders.