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CIMMYT reviews

3.4

63% would recommend to a friend

(79 total reviews)

47% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Diversity & inclusion

3.1

Career opportunities

3.0

Work/Life balance

2.9

Culture & values

2.6

Senior management

CIMMYT has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 79 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The CIMMYT employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

79 reviews
1.0
Jan 3, 2021

Worse place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The mission and job in itself are appealing. Salaries for some people are good but not for all.

Cons

Administratively, the place is a mess. Too much politics, nepotism and corruption in some areas (all known but protected by the top management, as long as it’s their people). Because of that, the working environment is normally tense. People committing fraud or other types of white collar crimes are promoted instead of fired, as long as they show blind loyalty to the top management. Most of the of the “leaders” at the top are pretty incompetent, some also corrupt or nepotist. The compliance officer/legal facilitates and uses those practices too. On top of that, there is a lot of discrimination and salary gaps; salaries and promotions depend more on politics instead of skills or functions. Gaps between one rank and the next one are normally huge (~5x to 15x).

2.0
Jun 16, 2019

Great mission, great people, toxic working environment.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You work for a good cause, contributing to a better world. Multicultural environment is great. There is a lot of staff committed to the mission and working together for a better world, not only in their role but in their personal time too. Projects are super interesting and it’s a great place to learn, because of the work and complex projects you work on. Despite the gender gap, there are some concrete actions to reduce it. There is a lot of effort in increasing transparency, teamwork and eliminating discrimination and negative hierarchies but there is still a lot to do.

Cons

Too much politics. In half of the departments the heads/directors reward loyalty instead of performance or capacity. There is still considerable discrimination vs national staff (normally paid 1/5 of foreigners), vs women, vs young staff and vs administrative staff (scientist are always right whether they actually know what are they talking about or not). There is no professional development plans and most supervisors are appointed because of personal favors or because they are technically good in their field but not because they know how to supervise. There is a lot of harassment and the compliance officer only takes care of cases where the harasser is not her friend.

1.0
Jan 30, 2015

If you are a young scientist and have another employment option, steer clear from this place.

Postdoctoral fellow
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting job, international environment, excellent school for children, good (not excellent, though) benefits.

Cons

Career growth for younger scientist is close to impossible unless someone retires or leaves the places. Strongly centralized system, at least in the Global Wheat Program and the management is not used to listen to the staff. No sense of community/team. Too much inside/dirty politics and hatred.

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