Does Millennium Challenge pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Millennium Challenge employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.0 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Millennium Challenge. This rating has decreased by 6% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Millennium Challenge?

56% of Millennium Challenge employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Millennium Challenge 3.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.3 for culture and values and 3.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Millennium Challenge?

Director (8) , Program Officer (6) , Associate Director (4) , Intern (4) , Senior Program Officer (4) , Consultant (3) , Analyst (2) , Economist (2) , Manager (2)

What are the pros of working at Millennium Challenge according to real employee reviews?

"good environnement, good staff, you organize yourself freely" ((in 7 reviews)); "Good mix of impactful, stimulating work, good colleagues" ((in 6 reviews)); "Competitive pay, amazing benefits, and many opportunities to support agency initiatives." ((in 4 reviews)); "Excellent benefits." ((in 4 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Millennium Challenge according to real employee reviews?

"Poor leadership and unclear management processes" ((in 7 reviews)); "A backstabbing culture of Diffused accountability that rewards passing blame to others." ((in 6 reviews)); "This complaint is very common throughout the IT space, but while I was there, management lacked the focus to see how a long term strategy would greatly benefit the organization." ((in 5 reviews)); "Manager to worker bee ratio is bad." ((in 4 reviews)); "Salaries are higher than other agencies, but there isnt much room for advancement for entry level positions." ((in 3 reviews))

Millennium Challenge Reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(84 total reviews)

Sean Cairncross

65% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Company ratings over time

Ratings trend for the last 6 months (84 reviews)

Millennium Challenge has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 84 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Millennium Challenge employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Government and public administration industry (3.6 stars).

Reviews by job title

84 reviews

2.0

8 Mar 2010

Don't believe the hype

Program officer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

If this is your first non-field job in development, then MCC is a great start. Because the organization is understaffed and in disarray, they're forced to give junior staff more responsibility. It's a govt job, so the pay and benefits are decent, and the building is nice, too. Travel can be a nice perq if that's part of your job.

Cons

If you're thinking about staying beyond 18 months, be prepared for disappointment. The organization is six years old, yet the leadership (civil servants and appointees) still haven't figured out the basics of how to run an organization. For example, we just did our annual performance plans *six months* after the performance period began. As you can see, they are completely meaningless. And be prepared for very little structure and direction. This is definitely a place where you have to be self-motivated or you will be totally lost. And be prepared to push a lot of paper!

1.0

1 Dec 2015

Underwhelming, disorganized, self-promoting

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

This agency pays well outside the typical pay range for any given position, conspicuously so since it's supposed to focus on reducing poverty.

Cons

MCC's ratings on the Employee Viewpoint Survey have slid precipitously since the current CEO took over, and her shortcomings as a CEO have trickled down into middle management. The most recent survey (which was conveniently not published along with the bulk of other agencies' surveys) showed serious doubts among the majority of the staff about the integrity of the leadership. Overall the atmosphere is negative and focused on the promotion of a few key personalities, not the agency mission. If you're looking for a job, keep looking.

1.0

8 Sept 2016

Toxic culture of mediocre sycophant middle managers

Director

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Salaries are high, and you might work with some extremely smart and dedicated technical professionals. That's as good as this review is going to get.

Cons

Every CEO has been worse than the previous. The current CEO is incompetent and has fomented a toxic culture of backstabbing, finger-pointing, blame-gaming, and cover-your-behind. You've got 20% of people doing "the work" while the other 80% are all "managers" who delegate the work downward while managing upward to protect their behinds. MCC has a high self-perception no longer commensurate with its actual abilities. It is failing at its core mission of poverty reduction. The whole place is stuffed with hacks, sycophants, and snakes trying to organize their next political move. Internal processes are terrible, decisions are made by ad hoc committees with "opt-in" by anybody who wants. It is no longer a meritocracy but rather a pyramid of sycophants. New hires are judged by their ability to not embarrass their manager.

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