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Project Management Institute

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2.5

26% would recommend to a friend

(300 total reviews)
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Pierre Le Manh

30% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Project Management Institute has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 300 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Project Management Institute employee rating is 33% below average for employers within the Management & Consulting industry (3.7 stars).

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300 reviews
1.0
Feb 6, 2026

Executive team ruining this organization

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Pros

Nothing at all. It’s a shameful place to be at.

Cons

The C suite are only here to syphon out the organisations funds. Recently they all flew to Argentina for a “meeting”- not sure why, because PMI has no offices there nor does any of the leadership team live there. But this is a regular phenomena where the “big guys” misuse member money to enjoy life. Nothing concrete ever gets discussed in these meetings. Promotions and senior roles are handed to people for reasons other than their skills and ability to do the job. There is a toxic mid-management rung that only engages in pleasing the C suite. Their teams below are neglected and are ordered around, handed responsibilities with no real decision making powers. Total lack of trust and micromanagement is the flavor of this rung of people. The CEO is fussy and temperamental with no real strategic direction. Teams waste time focusing on choosing the choicest of restaurants for him to wine and dine, putting him up in fancy suites and making him look good on social media. So much for responsible use of member dollars. The CMO… this one’s a joke. She hires and fires people for fun. Her current focus is on hiring a bunch of incompetent “friends and neighbours” from and around the west coast. There are regional heads who are hired only because they were past colleagues and friends of the C suite. Favoritism plagues regional teams. The organisation is run by fear and deceit. HR is rendered helpless and remains mostly non existent. The most ironic thing about PMI is the complete lack of project management practices internally.

1.0
Sep 27, 2025

Marketing

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Pros

Good benefits, mission driven, some nice people.

Cons

In my experience (and the experience of almost every marketing person I spoke with) Menaka is a bully and created an atmosphere where bullying was encouraged. PMI has become place where shifting goal posts, general and very pronounced cruelty and constant restructuring has become the norm.

1.0
Jun 2, 2026

A deeply toxic culture

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Pros

Remote working, good pay, ome genuinely talented and well-meaning individual contributors who deserve far better than what this organisation puts them through.

Cons

The Marketing department has a deeply toxic culture where bullying is normal. Many others and I have witnessed people being screamed at publicly in meetings with no consequences for those responsible. Multiple colleagues have quit without another job lined up rather than stay. Goals are unclear and shift constantly, yet when things go wrong the blame lands squarely on staff rather than on the leadership that failed to provide direction. Communication is terrible. Decisions are made with a small circle of favourites and not shared even with senior colleagues who need that information to do their jobs. The result is a culture where a small inner circle, based on favour, controls all decisions behind closed doors, leaving even experienced, senior people stripped of any decision-making authority. Leadership across the organization is chaotic. Processes are a mess, poorly defined and inconsistent. It's an environment that actively de-skills you over time. You may be encouraged to pursue the PMP, but the irony is that PMI doesn't apply its own methodology internally, so you'll never get the chance to put it into practice.

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