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Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(67 total reviews)

Julie Fleshman

54% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 67 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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67 reviews
2.0
18 Sept 2019

A Pile of Lies

Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

Employees below executive level are super hardworking. People really are dedicated to the cause and want to see this terrible disease make progress. You can make some solid working relationships with people on your team because everyone brings something different and is willing to work together. It’s also nice to see the effort the social committee puts into having fun events for employees! Manhattan Beach is beautiful and the office is very modern and there are good benefits.

Cons

High turnover rate due to incompetent leadership and making employees feel undervalued. It doesn’t look good when a CEO says in a staff meeting if you don’t do things the PanCAN way (her way), then you just don’t “fit”. Also most of the 5 star reviews after Jan. 2019 are fake from higher ups or a voluntold situation from leadership. If you speak up for yourself, be prepared to face retaliation and end up being fired for something arbitrary or quitting. I’ve seen a lot of good people go for dumb situations. Like most places, HR won’t do anything if you bring up issues. Harassment, gender discrimination, racism, and much more gets swept under the rug. The pay gap between execs and lower level employees is also discouraging. If you don’t have director attached to your title, be prepared to be paid below fair market value. There also seems to be some discrepancy at the exec level as well.

1.0
19 Mar 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Holidays and summer Friday

Cons

Outdated way of running a business, favoritisms, racism all throughout the company. Management is horrible and Human Resources is useless. Human Resources is supposed to be there to support the employees not disregard their feelings and concerns! The management seems to have certain groups and everyone sticks together to cover their own but not the employees that do all the hard and stressful work! If you’re not Caucasian or a part of the Latino group of managers you can forget getting treated with respect. I’ve never experienced discrimination or racism till I worked for Pancan! They try to fire you or make you uncomfortable and overwhelmed till you quit your job! The whole Non-profit is a scam. Donations are being used to fun upper managements lavish vehicles and week long trips!

1.0
21 Feb 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-The organization actually IS making a huge difference for patients and research in a field that has little support. Working there means you are ultimately on the team that is doing that. -Office is nice, in a nice location -If you are willing to brown-nose & never say no to the right people, you'll be able to ride your way to the top. -At some point you will probably have the title manager, it is given out liberally. -You might actually be in meetings so much that you never have to do real work.

Cons

-You might be asked to violate labor laws if you're an hourly employee (I was!) and then become the "problem child" if you refuse. -You will likely be screamed/yelled at by almost anyone at the executive level. -You'll be in meetings so much that you don't have time to do real work, so you'll get to stay until 8pm to do that. -With every restructure, you'll get a little bit more work added to your plate and then one day you'll stumble across your original job description on the shared drive and not even recognize it. -You'll also get to watch the executive team/J. Fleshman make horrific choices for the organization that will ultimately lead to it's demise (like spending money before it is raised on a program that's entire purpose isn't even decided on) without being able to do anything. And you'll be expected to continue to be a ra-ra cheerleader to motivate volunteers/raise more money despite knowing it is being squandered on unintelligible, grandiose, vague visions.

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