Ashoka reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(251 total reviews)
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Bill Drayton

43% approve of CEO

34% positive business outlook

Ashoka has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 251 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ashoka 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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251 reviews
2.0
Dec 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

People - bright, motivated, collegial, innovative for public good Flexibility for work hours/location Flexibility of job roles/functions Great mission/purpose Pioneer organization Network of networks

Cons

Pay not sustainable Enabling processes and supportive structures are weak and not prioritized Great ideation, often poor execution Entrepreneurs more highly valued/recognized than intrapreneurs

3.0
Feb 7, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

amazing people and access to an incredible network, ability to be exposed to lots of different projects, management styles and strategy building. Flexible work hours and ability to work from home if needed

Cons

Horrible salary and almost impossible to get a raise or promotion. Generally only can get a promotion if you threaten to leave. Have to push very hard to gain new work experience or responsibilities - very few managers look out for your own career path

2.0
Dec 26, 2022

Terrible, unethical

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good talented people, phenomenal pioneering work in Social Entrepreneurship with a world class selection process and criteria.

Cons

Unethical full stop. Bullying, lying, harassment and lies. You need to suck up to the CEO to move ahead at this company and there are some staff members who do just that at the detriment of everyone else around them. HR is known to cover up unethical behaviour of those who the CEO favours. In Asia it’s another story completely. The youth team, especially the leader there makes up rampant lies about the work they are doing and impact they’re creating and feeding this to the CEO, completely unacceptable use of resources and ethics. Behaviour of the staff including the gentleman who leads youth years as well as previous leaders of the South East Asia office falls into borderline incompetency. I have heard of Ashoka covering up issues related to ethical behaviour time and time again. Ashoka just shows that you don’t need any form of moral, ethics or real skills to get ahead but how ‘strategic’ you are and how far you’re willing to go to get yourself ahead while pushing others behind.

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