26 May 2026
Tools for Humanity Reviews
3.5
62% would recommend to a friend
52% positive business outlook
Tools for Humanity has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 22 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there.
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22 reviews
4.0
19 May 2026
Talented people and experience, but leadership varies
Anonymous employee
Former employee, more than 1 year
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
Awesome, talented, kind people work here when I joined. You'll gain a lot of experience and get to contribute a ton, but burn out is real.
Cons
The leadership was rocky when I first joined but has somewhat stabilized, though it is not perfect. Depending on who your leader is, you'll either struggle or thrive.
2.0
8 May 2026
The talent is real. The leadership isn't.
Former employee, more than 3 years
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
- The first 3–4 levels of the company are full of genuinely talented, ego-less people. Easy to work with, smart, collaborative. - If you're an IC or junior manager and you click with your team, the day-to-day can actually be interesting. - Made real friendships and learned a lot from peers, the kind of colleagues who make a hard job worth showing up for. - Salary comp is good. Token equity package is essentially worthless.
Cons
- The CEO regularly talks about that if you don't eat, sleep, breathe TFH, this role isn't for you — framed as a kind "exit plan" offer. The bar isn't the issue; the team works hard and goes the extra mile. The issue is hearing total-devotion rhetoric from a founder who runs another company on the side and goes dark for weeks at a time. Asking 110% of the team while you're at 50% yourself doesn't land the way he seems to think. - Mid-to-senior management is a hard wall. Big egos, thin competence, recycled excuses. - The company genuinely doesn't know how it's doing — and neither does leadership. After months you still couldn't tell anyone what the business was actually optimizing for. - "We're a startup, things are messy" gets used as a permanent shield. Reasonable framing for a 10-person team. Not reasonable when 95% of the company are startup veterans who can clearly tell the difference between productive chaos and structural avoidance. The people leaning on the excuse hadn't built one before; the people they were managing mostly had. - Relentless leadership churn. New head of X, new VP of Y, every quarter. The pattern: the CEO seemed to expect each new senior hire to solve the business for him. The competent ones bolted within months — they read the situation faster than they could be onboarded.
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