United Way reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,848 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 1,848 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
1.0
Aug 9, 2022

HORRIBLE - do not recommend

Anonymous employee
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Pros

NONE - unless you count "flexing your work hours"

Cons

Upper management gets all the money while their employees suffer from HORRIBLE work hours and uncommunicated expectations. They let you flex your hours but you and your team end up working over 60 hours a week because of the horrible lack of leaderships. Tasks or deadlines usually get communicated the day off at 4 PM and is expected to be done that moment (was not just a one time thing, this was DAILY). Upper management KNOWS nothing and basically just guess what donors/people want and from there it takes at least 5 different tries before you can get any clear communication to get things done correctly. After calculating salary to hours worked, my team was basically working less than minimum wages and when asked for fair compensation, it is never within budgets but yet the CEO and all the others are making will over $200k-$500k. There is literally no room to grow with leadership that keep "offering their help" and then stack more work onto your plate and never compensate you for your hours. Unless you are White and are working in the Office of Development, do not expect any kind of fair pay at all. They truly take advantage of kind people wanting to make a difference in the community.

5.0
Dec 17, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, nice work environment, half day Fridays during the summer. The mission and vision of the organization are clear and there's a lot to get behind there.

Cons

There's always more work than can be done in any given week. While there's a focus on work/life balance sometimes that can be blurry.

1.0
Sep 6, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The staff level employees are great and fun to work with

Cons

Leadership is greedy, corrupt and uses fear-based tactics to “motivate” employees. The brand is struggling to stay relevant in philanthropy and un-doing years and years of being a pass through/middle man

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