IFF Reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(69 total reviews)

Joe Neri

58% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

IFF has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 69 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IFF employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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69 reviews
2.0
4 Apr 2022

Go in with EYES WIDE OPEN

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

On the surface, they're offering services that you don't typically see. With that, you may get opportunities to perform work that other employers and agencies won't offer, while gaining insight into the financing world. You can be hungry to learn, or a desk jockey and survive for 1-2 years before the ground shifts under you. That's when you decide if you're a cog, if it's time for you to move on, or if you're ok with a losing battle while you gain as much info and experience as you can before the inevitable departure.

Cons

First, read the "cons" from all the reviews here. They contain enough facts to keep in mind should you choose to work at IFF. IFF operates as a hierarchical corporation that is exempt from some taxes due to its nonprofit status. Don't be fooled into thinking this is a nonprofit agency experience - you'll get chewed up and spit out if you do. The holy grail of internal programs is mounted on internally reported results that they either won't quote real numbers on, or they exaggerate. This is based on my direct experience and from what I've heard from partner orgs. I've also learned that IFF hasn't met their agreements to pay some external consultants and have resorted to not returning communications and have even lied to deny pay. This is the most toxic work culture I've experienced. It'll seem great at first, but then it won't. Then it just gets dark. Don't stay more than 2 years unless you're ok with being a desk jockey. Watch out for the ladder climbers. As soon as they achieve darling or executive status, yield the right of way, and keep learning what you can until it's time to go. Google IFF's IRS 990's... You'll see why they want their power to remain intact. $$$ IFF has reputational damage in most, or perhaps all, of its markets. They downplay it because it doesn't directly affect the execs. If you live and work in one of these markets, be prepared to do the extra work to cover your reputation while you work here. Internal pay equity is out of control. If you like the benefits package they offer you, great, take it! Just know that you may have to dig and even argue to get increases promised to you. And you may see others getting promotions for doing nothing except their basic job functions. The bottom line is get in, get what you can while doing good work and keeping your external network warm, then get out before you sour or get fired/let go/ dismissed, or whatever nonsensical term they're using now.

2.0
10 Dec 2024

Mission does not justify harm to employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

IFF's greatest asset is that it is full of super talented, hard-working people who are eager to do great work in support of the organization's mission.

Cons

I would not recommend IFF as an employer. I witnessed and experienced a couple of members of senior leadership doing great harm to individuals and getting in the way of good work being done. Sadly, in a culture that explicitly values psychological safety and candor, I saw many of the concerns raised to leaders and HR met with gaslighting -- denying problems and/or blaming those experiencing toxic dynamics, sometimes labeling these as "personnel issues." The results for individuals ranges from frustration to mental health impacts, and the results for the organization and the communities it serves are less good work getting done and missed opportunities for impact.

1.0
5 Oct 2025

Political, Petty, and Poisonous

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Cool/Nice Office Space Decent Salaries Some nice people work there

Cons

IFF is a place where office politics reign supreme. There are a couple of VP's who get to hold the organization hostage. If they don't like you, count your days ------ literally. Leadership is control obsessed and mistakes are not allowed (don't believe ANY of the pyschological safety stuff). Five minutes after they forced EVERYONE to sit through a weird anti racismism and psychological safety, the CEO was trying to lock people out of the room because they were late. Their idea of employee development is making you read 200 emails from the CEO, then you have to go to class with the CEO and listen to him talk about how brilliant he is, how he personally saved this organization, and that city because he is so amazing. Everyone just sits around eating up because if you don't you'll be on the naughty list and will soon lose your job. They are always talking about ONEIFF and how collaboration is the most important thing, then people will deliberately sabatoge you by not sharing information or telling you important things and then waiting until you're on a group call with management to bring something up so you look unprepared and dumb. This place was shockingly traumatic which is said because some really cool people work there. I think the only way to survive is to come in a get in the good graces of 5 key people. If any one of those five don't like you, polish the resume because they will get you fired. They gossip, lie, and cry to get their way.

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