UNHCR reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(841 total reviews)
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António Guterres

75% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

UNHCR has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 841 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UNHCR 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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841 reviews
1.0
Mar 13, 2023
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

you can gain insight into how decisions are made, how tasks are assigned and executed, how departments and teams interact with each other, and how the company as a whole functions. This knowledge can be valuable if you are seeking to work for the company, invest in it, or simply have a deeper understanding of how it operates. It can also help you gain a competitive edge in the job market by demonstrating your knowledge and understanding of corporate operations.

Cons

It is hard to imagine to express the toxic environment without any negative opinion of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), which is a subsidiary of the United Nations. The UNHCR is more toxic than one might expect, possibly due to its size as a large corporation. The author believes that the lack of efficiency in the organization is directly related to the people working inside, who lack vision and the will to do anything helpful for the organization or refugees. The lack of capacity, which has led to the creation of units where only like-minded individuals are welcomed, and anyone who tries to help or innovate is immediately discarded by hostility. The organization as not just incapable but also arrogant. Overall, it is an organization that is not functioning effectively and is failing to provide refugees with the assistance they are entitled to.

2.0
Oct 24, 2018

Great mission, poor leadership.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great mission, good salaries for management, stocked kitchens with snacks

Cons

Poor management skills across the board, poor hiring practices, waste lots of money that should go to cause, toxic environment, rude staff

4.0
Jan 15, 2018

Good Experience, Management Needs Work...

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

--Given big responsibilities which enabled me to develop my skill set --Having creative license to present my ideas and have them accepted --Learning firsthand about the international and local coordination mechanisms in place to protect refugees --Meeting interesting people (government officials, journalists, development and humanitarian workers) --The challenging environment of field work tests your character (pro in this case) --Good pay and benefits

Cons

--Little to no work-life balance --Lots of days working 12+ hours --Lot of consecutive all-nighters --Stressful in the field, navigating the local context --Inefficient way of working (averse to technology and time-saving methods) --Better training and orientation needed once you enter into duty --Burn-out is common (seen it in many colleagues), but nothing seems to be done to make things better or ensure it doesn't happen again

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