Internal basket case but many nice colleagues - Anonymous employee Beyond Blue Employee Review

2.0
8 July 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues are mostly extremely friendly and very caring. Office is very comfortable and in a great location. Everyone knows the brand (although not many people know what Beyond Blue actually does in much detail) which helps in finding future jobs elsewhere.

Cons

Beyond Blue is very shiny on the outside but a mess internally. Huge amount of wasted resources and money and very resistant to change. Staff are constantly mysteriously vanishing with one liner emails going out and no explanation. Very hush hush. No surprise morale is pretty bad. I once overheard a conversation where someone in IT was being asked if negative Glassdoor reviews can be challenged or the posters identified. This should tell you all you need to know. Although so much money comes in the books are in the red and there are serious struggles with keeping the organisation relevant. Just explore the website and see how outdated the info is. Where does all the money go? Although most people are very nice, the org does attract quite a few nasties (ambitious career climbers, people in it just for the prestige of the brand name, or who couldn't get a job in private industry). They end up in powerful positions. HR is particularly useless and treats staff like numbers. There's a never ending list of internal training slideshows that must be completed. Quite laughable. Initiatives must clear many layers of approval and often it's a wild goose chase where you end up circling back to yourself. Everyone is accustomed to or complacent with at least some level of confusion. If you have ideas and want to get meaningful things done, this isn't the place for you.

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1.0
16 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

People are nice. Lack of direction, accountability and appetite for risk means nothing much gets done. A pretty cruisy “job”!

Cons

No strong company strategy means work is reactive, uninteresting and slow paced. Unfortunately that disempowers people to be able to make calls and decisions given how rigid and risk adverse they are. Unless you’re in policy related projects, and even then I’d caution, avoid this place. Will do nothing for your career learning, development and progression. It’s a shame given there’s so much opportunity in the mental health space and for a prominent brand like beyond blue but alas, if the executives aren’t bold but instead are comfortable with their cushy salaries, I’m afraid it will be just continue to be a “mental health nfp” with a confused message and the public perception of “I’ve heard of them but don’t know what the actually do” type organization.

1
4.0
27 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

I've never worked anywhere with such a strong focus on wellbeing. The CEO’s a genuine person and a good leader. Big emphasis on us delivering what's on the box and making sure donations are used wisely. Every all staff meeting has a reminder of why we’re here, and that really matters to me. Every time we hear the CEO talk about fundraising or our finances its always in relation to how we are using it to help people with depression and anxiety, or what we need to change in order to make those dollars work better for the community, it's not just lip service.

Cons

Some teams are really strong, others are struggling. So it's worth checking in the interview about the team and their history. I can see they’re working on it, which is good. Hands down the best NGO I’ve worked at for what its worth. The people who do best here are chill but smart and strategic. There is little money and small teams so people from a corporate background often struggle - there's paperwork, there isn't money to stand up massive projects on demand, things take a long time, it's messy and there's still difficulty with planning which is painful for some teams.

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