Americares reviews

4.0

72% would recommend to a friend

(110 total reviews)

Christine Squires

82% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Americares has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 110 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Americares 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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110 reviews
2.0
Nov 18, 2016

Revolving Door

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The organization itself does great work, and the staff on the program side enjoys the opportunities they get to travel and engage internationally.

Cons

The promotion structure is based on time, not ability, meaning many of the people in charge are absolutely terrible managers, but since they've been there a while they end up in positions of power. Equally bad is the inability of entry-level employees to move up in duties and responsibilities. After three years you should expect to be doing exactly the same things you were doing on day one, no matter how much you prove yourself or how invaluable you become to your team. Then either accept it or quit - like most people do when they realize they're not going anywhere. Every other week they announce a new departure, but no one in HR seems to care about what's causing that - people are disposable.

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Americares Response
9y
Thank you for your feedback. While we are sorry to hear your frustrations, we are proud to say that Americares factors much more than tenure into a promotion cycle and are always looking for more ways to promote career growth for all of our staff.
2.0
Feb 27, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The opportunity to be involved on both a domestic and international humanitarian agenda. The opportunity to feel that you are part of the solution and not part of the problem.

Cons

Senior management is extremely disconnected from the reality of humanitarian aid efforts largely due to the fact that none have a relief background. Subsequently, not enough value is given to true experts in the field and the organization often makes decisions based on image rather than results. Most of the time, decisions are made not based on what is correct for a project and its beneficiaries but based on what is in the best interests of the donor and their corporate social responsibility communications goals.

2.0
Aug 30, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- flexible remote work, good job if you have kids or take care of an elderly relative - easy non-demanding work, little expectations for you to deliver anything so you have most of the day to yourself - easy paycheck with good pay so if you just need a job while you look for something interesting this is a good place - Will be an easy job to get if you come from private sector

Cons

- minimal intellectual or cognitively challenging substantive work - the people are all mentally checked out not adding value and just there for a steady paycheck, alot of elderly staff resistant to change/stuck in their ways, a lot of staff are desperately clinging to their jobs and are scared they will be figured out for being irrelevant so will be hostile if they feel you are trying to make programs more efficient/effective - total career deathsprial for young people who stay here more than 2 years. expect no ability to learn more or earn more - you will be trapped and surrounded by geriatrics - expect to be frustrated if you actually want to be hands on and help people/ do meaningful NGO work - DEI program run by HR is a virtue signaling project to show that they hire people of all colors and sexual orientations while hiding that they actually want zero diversity of opinion - if you are committed to the NGO humanitarian space, prepare for few and far between opportunities to travel to do field work

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Americares Response
1y
As an organization that is deeply committed to both inclusive workplaces and feedback culture, we know that both are possible at all times. It is disappointing and not aligned with our organizational values, feedback culture, and Glassdoor guidelines about stereotypes and slurs to have feedback that diminishes its own credibility by making ageist and age-based grouping stereotypes, as well as comments that imply our incredibly talented staff members of all backgrounds and identities are hired for anything other than their talent. We have competency-based hiring practices and our transparent job hiring processes can be found on our website. We value staff voice and create many systems to have anonymous, informal, and formal feedback channels within the organization. We also value standards for how feedback is shared and apologize to the general Glassdoor community and our Americares employees that the language used by this feedback sharer is somehow connected to our organization as we value all ages and identities in our organization and value our highly competent workforce.
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