World Bank Group reviews

From the inside, the World Bank can seem disorganized, bureaucratic, and unnecessarily convoluted. Due at least in part to its dwindling competitiveness, it cannot offer adequate benefits to 40% of its staff (and decreasing benefits to the rest). These are called 'STC's', and they receive no healthcare, no sick days, and can only work 150 days a year. This means that most of them are unemployed for about 2.5 months a year. While STC roles work well for some (especially retired folks - who earn about 3x as much as their younger counterparts + retirement benefits from the World Bank), the rest are effectively subsidizing benefits for the other 60%. It is a perverse two-part caste system - especially in a place that lives and breathes equality and equity for the world's disadvantaged. Most people under the age of 30 are 'STC's', and many leave. So it makes me wonder: where is the World Bank going? If it cannot recruit and keep talent like it used to, then what's left for its future?

No incentive to perform well or consequence/responsibility if things go down. No bonus or carry at all. Promotion is very slow. It can take over seven to ten years to get promoted to the next level. Senior management can fly business class while junior to middle level staff can only do economy class even on a 14 hours flight.