CIMMYT reviews

Poisonous top management, They have made a mess with the organization. They have fired people that he considered their enemies and gives the higher positions to their friends. They supposedly support women, however they just fired a management position just because she was pregnant. They approve to spend the money just with the intention to not return funds to donors, even if they have to "take" the funds by purchasing nonsense stuff to parents and friends. A real audit should go there. A complete disaster.

HUGE pay and benefits gap between national and international employees. This reality creates tension and an almost colonial feel to the institutional hierarchy. CIMMYT struggles to play well with local national/host country institutions. There is often an impression (mostly unfair) of CIMMYT as elitist and somewhat of an ivory tower. CIMMYT often lacks the institutional ability to navigate local politics, institutional relations, etc. because it is an agricultural scientific organization run by agricultural scientists. This results, often, in good science not making it to the field or to the intended recipients.