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
1.0
Oct 20, 2020

Toxic Workplace

Recommend
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Pros

* Coworkers were great while everything worked well.

Cons

* Bullying in order to force out employees was common, usually enacted by management at different levels who were aided by HR. At no fewer than four occasions did I witness a person who just had broken down by how they were treated. At least one had to be taken to a mental ward (and then quietly dropped by Greenpeace Nordic at once afterwards). * Racist remarks by one staffer towards three POC were reported to HR. HR chose to take no action. * Management was deeply misogynistic both at organisation and volunteer level. Esp one Volunteer Coordinator seemed to use the volunteers as a dating pool and kept dating different volunteers, often at the same time. * Organisation Veterans could act with impunity. I was twice threatened by organisation veterans who where never punished for their behavior. * Project Employees were expected to stay on but never got any word about a new contract until their last week. They were then treated as traitors for moving on. * Salaries for organisation veterans were usually above average with some excuse as to why. Salaries for everybody else was below average. Asking for a raise for any reason got at least one person sacked.

1.0
Jan 30, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most team members are nice enough well meaning people.

Cons

Organisation operates on the belief of helping the environment when really are just pushing hard sales with counter-intuitive strategies and rules. Selling the idea of saving the planet more than actually doing anything productive/proactive/practical to enact real change. Hours are terrible. So many British transplants bringing UK office culture into the work environment, difficult to be passionate about making our country a greener place when Englishmen are butchering Maori names of places and providing oversimplified and often misguided explanations/understandings of local politics and culture. It's hard to work at Greenpeace and feel that you're doing right, when you actually care a lot about these issues and the organisation is willing to take advantage of your concerns to further take advantage of people.

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