employer cover photo
employer logo
employer logo

Mission Economic Development Agency

Is this your company?

Mission Economic Development Agency Reviews

2.9

41% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)
avatar

Luis Granados

43% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Mission Economic Development Agency has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Mission Economic Development Agency employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

21 reviews
1.0
21 May 2026

Horrible leadership

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You can move up if you want to play the game

Cons

Toxic leadership starting from the top. Piece of poop CEO that doesn’t connect with his staff and frequently butts heads with his employees, resulting in HR complaints that go nowhere. The place is far more concerned with their image than the impact. Misaligned goals mean coaches are burned out and constantly churned to do as much as possible without being properly trained. Tied to grants that have them focus on unrealistic goals for staff and dilute the impact of their work constantly. Recent layoffs asking most vulnerable staff to take pay cuts and lose benefits that probably could have prevented if CEO wasn’t paying himself 400k to go to conferences and inflate his ego. That’s what this place cares about though, not their work.

3.0
6 Aug 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good organization that does really good work in all of its many services for clients and the community. Great place to get feet wet into nonprofit and move around if you desire. They pay well compared to other nonprofits in the area.

Cons

Growing pains as an organization with some vital departments such an accounting, evaluation, ops that they haven’t kept up with the growth often leaving many burnt out. They are ambitious in dreams for the org but jump ahead of themselves often so much so that there was major budget cut this year, no fun things, no promotions, yet the CEO still took his $400k salary. Huge pay gap between him and next high paying employee. Male leadership have no accountability to issues of concern for others because Luis does the same. HR doesn’t want to rock the boat and rather that employee leave. They have potential to be so good but they need to remove machismo culture especially when it’s mostly female staff. This year about 20 people left in the 8 months of this calendar year, 4 of them being the newly promoted vice presidents of their respective departments. That’s a huge red flag. Accounts receivable is over a million. Matter of time that they implode.

Viewing 1 - 3 of 21 Reviews

Glassdoor has 25 Mission Economic Development Agency reviews submitted anonymously by Mission Economic Development Agency employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Mission Economic Development Agency is right for you.