Chaotic, an NGO trying and failing to transform into a tech company because it doesn't understand tech - Anonymous employee CDP Employee Review

1.0
17 July 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good holiday allowance. Mission is good. Some genuinely excellent people.

Cons

Chaos. Multiple rounds of restructuring/redundancies. Churn in senior leadership. Massive disconnect between leadership/strategic vision and the delivery teams, Always trying to boil the ocean rather than gradual change. No training budget. No career progression path. No opportunities to provide feedback on managers. Some terrible people managers who are clueless about how to support their staff in a difficult environment. Business outlook is poor, outpaced by better delivering competition and battered by global headwinds.

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5.0
20 Jan 2026
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Pros

nice team flexible working hours independent working style encouraged

Cons

recently made less flexible with changes in work structure (remote work not possible anymore)

1.0
25 Sept 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people are united by the mission to address the climate crisis. The benefits in certain regions are good though in-office requirements are trending in new job requisitions.

Cons

Everything has been upended for the worse. There were at least 3 significant restructures in a very short timespan. There are no proper channels to provide feedback on poor people managers leaving direct reports to fend for themselves in a turbulent environment with conflicting direction. If you join in the next year at least, expect to spend most of your time putting out fires that should not have been started in the first place. It will take a lot of patience and evidence before employees start to regain faith in the work again. No one feels empowered to challenge decisions or the new corporate culture. The people running the show have just about run this place to the ground, and if your line manager has little influence in the organization, your team and mental health will bear the brunt unfortunately. I think many feel stuck and are just waiting for change to come.

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