Best working environment of my career - IT Operations Rotary Employee Review

5.0
29 July 2015
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Pros

Everyone is happy and caring: employees, management, "customer" club members, food service staff. Only at Rotary do employees get to know the mailroom guy and are on a first name basis with the cleaning staff. She keeps up with my kid's activities. Only at Rotary does senior management open a 1:30pm company meeting in the auditorium with, "thank you for taking time out of your day to come to this meeting. I hope you had an extra long walk at lunch, it's a beautiful day, isn't it?" The mission of Rotary is compelling and timely. Only at Rotary can you end your work day with a seminar on water quality featuring water-user Goose Island company with samples at the reception. Fascinating! People have a good work ethic and shun nonsense politics. Colleagues will go an extra mile to help you out. Senior management is respected, visible, unpretentious, and accessible.

Cons

Sometimes employees' niceness enables meetings to start late. This has been getting better in the last few years. Access to PC applications and systems is locked down tightly, requiring too much justification to gain access to tools that make us more productive.

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5.0
13 Sept 2025
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Pros

The people are amazing. The staff are dedicated to doing right to world.

Cons

Need more work life balance

5.0
30 May 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Rotary provided some of the best working memories in my career. I was brought in for a newly created position and was handed the keys to create. Being given such autonomy really allowed for me to experiment early and find my footing in a new industry/sector without having to be so bogged down with standard "business expectations" that were previously set. On top of this I would like to think I was placed within the best team setting for my personal growth and career ascension. While the area wasn't exactly what made sense for my role, the PEOPLE we're the absolute perfect culture fits. They allowed me to get a well rounded understanding of the business both internal and external as well as provided a safe place to ask questions. Having such a great culture fit on top of a ideal working environment is a very rare find, and I will forever be grateful for those opportunities.

Cons

Being in the non for profit world sometimes makes initiative driving hard as there are competing interest for "the cause" vs "business needs." This mentality would often create issues with IC's who work cross-departmentally being able to push projects along. Too many team silos in departments that need to be more collaborative to be able to work efficiently. Also, the appetite to explore new technology advancements are very slow moving. While budget could be approved, the resources were not often allocated to actual see the project through.

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