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American Red Cross reviews

3.3

50% would recommend to a friend

(4,606 total reviews)
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Gail McGovern

68% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

American Red Cross has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 4,606 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The American Red Cross employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
May 22, 2015
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Pros

Educating people on how important it is to donate blood, especially when they're really scared.

Cons

Like many have said, our manager's were truly (except for a few) ruthless, uneducated and many were thrown into the mix with NO previous managerial experience. It's ironic that the bad ones found each other and did their best to squash the life and passion of our best techs and account managers. The middle mgrs often claimed to want you to make your always changing and unrealistic goal because it helped the RC save lives....God help me I believed that for years. Until I found out that when we made goal, THEY received HUGE monetary rewards. Nepotism was rampant, and one of our manager's, possibly the worst of all of them, was a former RN who had been convicted of stealing drugs from her former patients. How did we know this? Her staff hated her so much, they googled the heck out of her till they found the dirt. Former account managers were hired after they had left and taken RC account with them to the competition, loyalty was NOT rewarded. I quit as did many before me. Most of the staff currently working are newbies and only biding their time until something better cones along. Even the HR folks were leaving for better companies and greener pastures. Two thumbs down 😖

1.0
May 20, 2015

Terrible

Anonymous employee
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Pros

I must have five words.

Cons

This is the most terrible place you can work for. For having a reputation of a humanitarian company they could care less about employees. I saw a woman wrote up for going into labor on the call floor and having to leave early. Look into the bonus Gail McGovern gave her self when she moved into her new home.

2.0
Jan 5, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Mission driven; flexible work schedule; good work life balance

Cons

Too many directors, you do the same thing over and over - duplicating work multiple times, contractors treated as more valuable than actual employees. Very low pay

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