Represent.Us Reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(18 total reviews)

Joshua Graham Lynn and Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno

100% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Represent.Us has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 18 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Represent.Us 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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18 reviews
5.0
21 July 2019

Nimble team

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Pros

Dedicated Team Great Benefits Innovative Nonprofit Great Cause

Cons

Work hard culture makes maintaining a good work/life balance difficult You really need to self-advocate for promotions and salary increases

1.0
12 May 2021

Toxic culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Staff is absolutely great and are forming a union to challenge terrible leadership

Cons

The only decision makers at the organization are three white men. They decide where the money goes, who is hired or fired, and what projects are worked on. The “successful” employees are those who follow the orders of these men, and others employees are shut out, reprimanded, or even fired for voicing disagreement, even if it’s with the organization’s best interest in mind. This can be psychologically traumatizing as those same individuals in leadership champion “radical candor” during staff meetings and make statements about valuing diversity, equity, and inclusion without making any effort to improve workplace climate. Even without all that, leadership has totally failed to structure an organization capable of scaling a national movement in democracy reform, and are only focused on making flashy celebrity videos and policy wins they can claim as their own, regardless of how much they actually impacted the reform.

1.0
27 Mar 2021
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literally nothing. I'm embarrassed to have worked here. for background I was an intern who was promoted to a fellow - I was paid 60% of what my team mates made to literally do their job for them - and then I was unceremoniously released when it was time to promote me. awful human beings.

Cons

- the ceo is a misogynist and also racist. during the beginning of the june 2020 protests he was incredibly dismissive of Black Lives Matter and told staff that anyone who wants to bring RepresentUs work closer to BLM should leave now - the group routinely releases "unbreaking america" videos that are chockful of lives. last year, they released a video starring omar epps advertising themselves as a group that works on private prison reform. which is not the case at all. this video was made to capitalize on black suffering. - as a trans person I faced many, many micro aggressions - expected to work overtime without pay for any hours past 40 -every single exit memo I found on our server contained serious complaints about sexism from the higher ups - this is more personal but higher-ups took credit for my work routinely. - as an 'intern' tasked with basically running the volunteer program I was taught nothing. no mentorship, no training, nothing. in fact -I- had to train my -superiors- on how to do the basic functions of their jobs. - on top of running the volunteer program, I also ran the Diversity Equity and Inclusion program for volunteers and it was not taken remotely seriously at all. - this organization is a massive grift - it will collapse within a year or so in my opinion. so stay away from them.

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