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      World Bank Group

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      4.1

      83% would recommend to a friend

      (2,935 total reviews)

      Ajay Banga

      84% approve of CEO

      74% positive business outlook

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      World Bank Group has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 2,935 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The World Bank Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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      4.0
      Mar 14, 2015

      Great place to make a difference

      Program manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Decent salary, good benefits, very smart colleagues, many opportunities to change the world for the better, always intellectually challenging, interesting travel.

      Cons

      Bureaucratic, poor managers, crony promotion system, hard to advance.

      3.0
      Mar 13, 2015

      good learning ground

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      benefits, international, good cafeteria, academic people

      Cons

      burocratic, slow, political, low salary, boring

      4.0
      Mar 13, 2015

      External consultant for the World Bank

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Consulting fees are decent, higher than EU, USAID and others. It is great working with very sharp, switched on people. Even as a consultant, you will have access to high level officials in the countries where you work, some of whom can actually make decisions! The work is usually fascinating and challenging and at a higher more strategic level than the trenches you must endure with USAID.

      Cons

      As a consultant, you are considered World Bank staff, but staff without most benefits. You are restricted from joining a vendor on other WB projects, even if that project is totally unrelated to current work. Too restrictive and nonsensical. The WB managers that one works for do not quite seem to know how best to work with consultants. The scopes of work are often unrealistic given the amount of time allocated, unless full information were available, which in emerging markets is almost never the case. In addition, if you are working on strategies, expectations as to whom in Government will implement the strategies is often very unrealistic and disconnected from reality.

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