Good place to work - Anonymous employee Breakthrough Institute Employee Review

Highly motivated people who care about their job

Upper management seems too removed from the reality of the employees. A general attitude of treating employees as unruly children.

You have the opportunity to do really interesting work early in your career, and engage with high-level thought leaders and decision-makers. Lots of chances to network and travel for workshops and conferences. If you only plan to work here for 1-2 years (and are a white man), I think it can be a great springboard to a meaningful career in environmental policy.

Very much run as an old boys club, not just the core organization, but the broader network they cultivate. The younger staff has very high turnover, especially among women. I've spoken with almost all former female staff members and they all had bad reflections on working there (and some men do too). Women and people of color often confided in me that they felt excluded, discriminated against, or disrespected. The boss can be quite temperamental and it made for a tense environment at times with people walking on eggshells or working behind the scenes to placate him. They present themselves as being very woke, but it's pure performance. They are unwilling to actually change anything structurally about the organization.