Small boutique government finance development agency - Anonymous employee OPIC Employee Review

4.0
22 Nov 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I have been working at OPIC for 2 years and find lots of opportunities to do different work within the agency. Good employees, good people. It's small so it is easier to fix problems quickly. The work is meaningful and interesting: mobilize investment from private sectors while promoting development in emerging market.

Cons

Small funding compared with the workload. Lots of regulations to close a deal. Lots paperwork requirement slow down the operation.

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Pros

Working at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation was a good step for me to get a good grounding in finance before trying to get a private sector job. I knew very little about financial statement analysis, and was able to learn to analyze each statement in detail and make intelligent judgments about companies in a number of different markets. My supervisors were supportive, and being that it was a government employee, there was never any rush for me to produce. This gave me a easy-going learning environment that would not have been possible in the private sector. Overall, I would recommend internships there.

Cons

While the government pace of working at OPIC can provide a relaxing learning environment, it can also be maddeningly boring. Many of the other interns at OPIC found that they did not have many meaningful assignments - I believe that this is related to the fact that supervisors at OPIC don't have a private sector incentive to get value from your work. A related annoying of working at OPIC is that it has a strikingly non-congenial work atmosphere. People aren't rude or intentional standoff-ish, but are in general not very easy to communicate with. I think this is because most employees are ex-bankers who have settled and have a family, and found OPIC (unsurprisingly) to be the easiest way to make a decent salary in the government.

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