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Gates Foundation

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Feel good about where you work - Anonymous employee Gates Foundation Employee Review

4.0
May 15, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Satisfying to work at a place where even if you're not doing the work on the ground, the work you do enables it in some way.

Cons

There is a fine line between pride of enabling good work and arrogance. There seems to be quite a bit of the latter and that was disappointing.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Mission-based work Diverse, passionate employee base Healthcare benefit Parental leave and support Unlimited PTO

Cons

Poor work-life balance Perfectionist culture Unreasonable expectations with working hours High levels of burnout Retaliation for setting boundaries with working hours Culture resistant to prioritization of work

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