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The Nature Conservancy

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Local offices do good work, but organization as a whole is a frustrating place to work. - Anonymous employee The Nature Conservancy Employee Review

1.0
17 Nov 2009
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Local TNC offices in various states and around the world work on some great projects, and contribute a lot to global conservation of important habitat and wildlife. Coworkers are friendly and most are dedicated to the goals of conservation, so there is a lot of common bond.

Cons

Amount of bureaucracy and hierarchy in the national organization as a whole is staggeringly high. Advice of employees who are experts in their field often seems to be discarded in favor of personal agendas of senior management. Salaries are significantly below industry average. Although that is to be expected when working at a non-profit, it is very frustrating to be working for so far below industry average salary as you watch the money that is not in your paycheck being wasted on bureaucracy instead of going towards the real work of the organization. The work-life balance they promote as one of the benefits of working here doesn't actually seem to exist, and is quite far from the reality of working here. Overall, it's a very traditional bureaucratic and hierarchical corporate culture--in many ways, even more bureaucratic and hierarchical than most large for-profit corporations I have worked for.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Some incredibly kind, smart, and passionate employees. Above average pay for a non-profit (could be better), fulfilling mission, great benefits (healthcare, PTO, 8% 401k match)

Cons

The higher up you go in the org, the worse it gets. Executive leadership is abysmal and they completely eroded trust in their ability to lead. Most of the C-suite needs to be replaced with people with higher EQ. Marketing in particular has an extremely toxic corporate culture that’s become immensely worse in the past 3-5 years. Layoffs were never a common occurrence, but in the last couple years, they happen with no rhyme or reason and those exact roles that were eliminated are seemingly reposted just mere weeks after folks are pushed out. Beware of what team you’re joining. It’s a mixed bag. Some amazing teams with incredible leadership, and some not.

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