Greenpeace reviews

3.8

68% would recommend to a friend

(619 total reviews)
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Kumi Naidoo

84% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Greenpeace has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 619 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Greenpeace 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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619 reviews
2.0
Sep 19, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Easy to get the job Decent pay and benefits Atmosphere is usually pretty upbeat

Cons

The more bought into the cause you are the more they will abuse you and the more painful this job will be. You don't matter to the org. The people around you will make you feel like you are a hero, but when push comes to shove, if your numbers are not up to par one month they will drop you like a brick. The phrase in the office we used was "Eat or Die" The statistics that determine whether you are dropped like a brick are inaccurate and favor short sighted tactics which ironic for an organization that claims to be fighting for sustainability. Lies of omission are not frowned upon. They don't care about the accuracy of the message, only the money raised. The org claims to fight horrible corporate practices and negligence that favors the bottom line, while perpetrating the exact same on it's own employees. They claim that they stand for social justice, yet when it is statistically obvious that minorities experience more discrimination and have a more difficult time fundraising, they quietly let them get fired rather than acknowledge the problem.

2.0
Feb 6, 2024

Great cause, but Greenpeace USA needs a makeover

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people and the mission. You'll find a lot of like minded people who are interested in saving the environment. The benefits are good too.

Cons

Pay. You can make significantly more at other non-profits and it's rare to receive a pay raise or promotion. Senior leadership and upper management are the biggest grifters. Every few years they leave for better jobs and are replaced with similar people who sell a vision and restructure, but leave before the results come in. The next people do the same thing and this cycle continues to leave the organization worse off than it was before. The organization is very inefficient, spends money frivolously, and treats its employees like a revolving door. You join a non-profit to get away from the capitalistic private sector, but you are treated as a replaceable employee at a big corporation. Very few projects are completed on time or on budget. There are too many middle managers who just complicate processes and slow things down. The organization is bleeding money because of inefficiencies, poor spending habits, and high salaries for leadership, without much to show for it. As a result, there have been multiple layoffs in the last couple of years, with no confidence that the sinking ship will be righted anytime soon. Employees have started to unionize, but leadership has been dragging its feet during negotiations.

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