Evidence Action Reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(134 total reviews)
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Danielle Bayer

100% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Evidence Action has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 134 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Evidence Action employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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134 reviews
1.0
18 Nov 2017

Still terrible management, may not survive

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Pros

Beware of the recent reviews; management did initiate them to counteract the slew of bad reviews (and it shows). Sadly, there are not many pros to tell about Evidence Action any more.

Cons

The organization is still losing critical staff due to incompetent management. There is a big exodus: COO, directors, managers, including IT are all out. IT systems are in shambles. Operational systems are still extremely poor, and this can not be ascribed anymore to being a 'start up' after seven years in the business. Don't believe it - this is now nothing more than management incompetence. Worst: Data security is still not dealt with and at this point, this is becoming criminally negligent. Additionally, HR has ignored complaints of sexual harassment, and in this day and age, that is just no longer ok (if it ever was). It's truly a mess there - stay far away if you value your career.

1.0
3 Jul 2017

Stay away

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Pros

Peers were excellent... until they all started to leave because management was poisonous.

Cons

Program heads are small-minded, petty, vindictive and micromanaging. They are incapable of nurturing careers since they are too busy trying to protect their kingdoms - senior staff will not nurture and develop you. If you've got research ambitions or just career ambitions in general - stay away. Evidence Action is a mess, upper management is atrocious and you will get all of the burn and none of the benefit of a "start-up".

1.0
30 Nov 2017

Keep away unless you wish to work like a minion

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Pros

Allowed to wear casual wear to office

Cons

I have never seen employees turnover on such a mammoth scale in any other organisation. Over the course of one year, nearly 70% of the employees have left the organisation primarily due to rude behaviour by upper management. Staff who have survived for long are usually the ones who basically spend more time gossiping around and defending themselves rather than working in a transparent and friendly environment. A classic example of workplace bullying is displayed throughout the organization giving the minimal scope of either raising your concern or addressing your grievances. To make matter worst, using foul language is rampant and no one seems to be bothered about it or even if they do, they are all too terrified to be vocal about it . The dysfunctional HR department hardly amends the policy or are simply not given enough authrority to devise a conducive environment to make the office more employee friendly. Amidst the disturbing and disrespectful behaviour portrayed by the organisation leaders, constant demotivating emails only aggravates to stressful work-life imbalance. PS-Please doesn't believe the positive reviews written out here , as it is endorsed by top management working in this organisation. Everyone wants to be recognized and rewarded for a job well done, sadly enough good employees are underlooked and undermined which is more of a tradition in this organisation. The upper management, in general, lack a compassionate touch and EQ to provide constructive coaching and feedback to motivate the employees to do better than their previous performance, rather in retrospect, feedbacks are given in front of everyone and the managers usually raise their voice if any subordinate question thier authority. The managers are known to micromanage to the level of minutia. Micromanagers appear insecure regarding their employees’ ability to perform their jobs without the manager directing every move. Management’s constant reorganization, changing direction and shuffling people around disconnects employees from the organization’s purpose. Employees don’t know what’s going on, what the priorities are or what they should be doing. This causes frustration leading to confusion and inefficiencies.

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