United Way reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,849 total reviews)
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Angela F. Williams

75% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

United Way has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,849 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The United Way employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
5.0
Nov 5, 2019

Great Non Profit

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great professional staff and volunteers.

Cons

I have nothing negative to say.

2.0
Aug 26, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent salary for location and parking is free

Cons

Senior leadership is petty and can be remarkably immature and unprofessional when someone disagrees with them

1.0
Jul 18, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent salary and benefits. Nice office and location.

Cons

Utterly depressing and unwelcoming place that reeks of distrust. Leadership tries to micromanages and tightly control everything, to the extent that employees can't do their jobs. You start to feel disaffected pretty fast. There is no accountability; people who don't do their work or do it badly protect and enable one another. Most senior employees have a petulant, antagonistic attitude towards United Way's community partners, which is shocking and offensive at first, but you get used to it because it is so commonplace. The organizational culture is very white, elitist, and privileged, and yet leaders react reflexively or defensively if others address it (however tactfully). If you luck out, you might get a decent manager, or you'll get someone incompetent, childish, and bizarre who probably should have been fired a long time ago.

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