Good place to work in the long term; kind of lost the plot in recent years - Senior Director DAI Employee Review

4.0
Feb 6, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Strong culture of integrity. Absolutely spectacular colleagues. Super interesting work.

Cons

Basically denuded of staff due to USAID cuts. Upper management had become obsessed with performance against metrics that were poorly fit to the business, and were focused entirely on how they might meet those metrics this week, without looking ahead to how to make structural improvements over the longer term.

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5.0
Jan 26, 2026
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Pros

Highly professional, top notch technical experts in several fields

Cons

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2.0
Nov 25, 2025
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Pros

- Good company culture in general; the people they hire are good to work with, friendly and down to earth

Cons

- They overwork everyone and don't give anything in return. They don't praise the good, but question the bad after you're taking on the workload of several people. Also, the leadership unilaterally pushes their ideas on the workforce and then blames the outcome on the workers, even though the workers warned them what would happen if they went through with their bad ideas. Higher-ups clearly pick favorites, and promote them, and give them perks over other, more competent people.

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