very good work experience - Anonymous employee UNHCR Employee Review

5.0
Sep 26, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

love the colleagues i work with, and the amount of independence i'm granted when it comes to my work. it's a sink-or-swim environment, which i enjoy a lot

Cons

management and leadership can be ineffectual and messy

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5.0
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Cons

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3.0
Apr 7, 2026
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Pros

Good benefits, you really do help people

Cons

Human Resources takes a highly specialized approach to talent management. In that you cannot really change functions easily in UNHCR. You have to hyper-specialize in one area. So if you are a protection staff, you tend to burn out from trauma without an internal mechanism to alleviate the burnout. The higher you go in UNHCR, the crazier you become.

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