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3.3

49% would recommend to a friend

(45 total reviews)
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Emily Chamlee Wright

78% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

Institute For Humane Studies has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 45 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Institute For Humane Studies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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45 reviews
2.0
May 21, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Professional. Free parking. Low stress. 9-5 job. Nice computers. Great benefits. Good restaurants nearby. Nice office space. Cool pics on the walls.

Cons

Boring. For a libertarian org., you'd think there were reward for initiative, creativity, but no, it's like working for the Dept. of Agriculture. Extremely high turnover. But they don't have to be creative or take any risks, because Charles Koch gives them their budget year in and year out.

3.0
May 6, 2016

Meh.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There's no dress code, and it's easy to make friends. Work hours and vacation time are very flexible. Benefits (including tuition waiver) are excellent. It's easy to rise up the ladder--basically to get promoted, all you need to do is stick around for more than a year and sell your mediocre ideas as innovative. Excellent benefits. There's a pretty easy workload and no work actually gets done. Overall this isn't a bad job to have for a couple years, as long as you don't get too sucked into the culture.

Cons

The pay is way too low. The entire place is incredibly disorganized, which is possibly a result of different departments having totally separate visions and strategies. There's no room for true intellectual disagreement, and the culture can be weirdly negative. Management is poor (as a result of the ease of becoming promoted). It is much more difficult to work here if you are a person of color, a woman, or queer. If you care about actually making a difference in the world, go elsewhere--none of the work IHS does actually makes a difference. People don't have to put a lot of effort into their work, and can get away with being very lazy.

1.0
Aug 27, 2018

Toxic Senior Leadership

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are a lot of opportunities to develop intellectually and learn about the ideas from an expert rather than from a book directly.

Cons

The leaders of IHS, at their best, lack empathy. And I mean that about every single member of the leadership team- even those who are perceived as above the fray. At their worst, leadership purposefully promotes a toxic culture that pits individuals against each other, elevates paranoia to an extreme level, and makes it seem like petty gossip without context is ok. I have experienced this first hand. As almost every review has mentioned, you will only climb the ladder at IHS if you're a yes man and, even then, your favor may not last long. IHS has taught me a valuable lesson in how not to treat people and that is something that I will take with me throughout the trajectory of my career so, in some twisted way, I am grateful to them. That said, some of the most dehumanizing experiences of my life were the result of working at IHS and I will feel the impact of it for years to come. My advice to young libertarians hoping to have an impact on the movement: look elsewhere... for your own personal wellbeing. The reviews here are not wrong.

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