Great people & mission / terrible leadership and company culture - Specialist DAI Employee Review

3.0
26 Oct 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Reputable company, impactful projects, good salary for industry standards, mission driven people.

Cons

Leadership is mostly terrible. There are a couple few of great people on the DAI leadership team but besides that, leadership makes terrible decisions and is extremely hypocritical. Thought their actions, they demonstrated that they do not care about their employees. DAI also lacks an effective structural organization and its bureaucracy is one of the worst I've seen. They've overlooked a lot of important operational decisions that've negatively impacted implementation. Most importantly, they overlook inappropriate behavior that should be addressed by HR in a more serious manner.

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5.0
26 Jan 2026
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Pros

Highly professional, top notch technical experts in several fields

Cons

Work subject to USG funding

4.0
6 Feb 2026
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Pros

Strong culture of integrity. Absolutely spectacular colleagues. Super interesting work.

Cons

Basically denuded of staff due to USAID cuts. Upper management had become obsessed with performance against metrics that were poorly fit to the business, and were focused entirely on how they might meet those metrics this week, without looking ahead to how to make structural improvements over the longer term.

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