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1.0
22 Jul 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The location is a pro and the retirement benefits are good. And, many of the employees, not management, are pleasant to work with.

Cons

If I had to choose one word to describe Resources for the Future, it would be Chaotic. Everyone either leaves or is fired or is waiting to be fired. If you manage to make it through the latest purge, then you are likely to have your work changed so that you want to leave, thus saving RFF payments of unemployment compensation. If management can't figure out how to do something, they hire consultants, pay them big bucks to change everything and see if they get positive results. The paralysis of analysis. Then management clears out entire departments after bringing in new, overpaid leadership to fire everyone with no warning and no negative employment reviews. But that's alright, everyone is an employee at will. The organization is penny wise and pound foolish; totally management top heavy. The latest chaotic move, which occurred with absolutely no warning, has the organizational structure changed, yet again, in less than two years. If management wants to hire another V.P. , then they fire a couple of people so they have more money to hire an overpaid V.P. If you don't have a PhD. then look out, you are very expendable.

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5.0
29 Jan 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues, training, work life balance.

Cons

Mentorship is mixed and strongly favors PhD track.

4.0
17 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- The people: you are working alongside some of the best and brightest in their field and to be a collaborator among such a phenomenal group of people is genuinely energizing. There is a lot of camaraderie among staff. Lots of opportunity to be social with one another. - Pay transparency and equity: The organization maintains pay transparency associated with job titles. Every title sits within a specific pay range which ensures that everyone knows what pay range a person sits within and can expect to be within themselves. Historically, the organization really prioritized equity, though that seems to be a priority that is falling more and more to the wayside in the last year.

Cons

- Career opportunities only really exist in the sense that working here is a great resume builder. There is a real reputational boon to working here. But there is really not any possibility for upward mobility, despite leadership misleadingly suggesting that they are eager to promote staff. - There was a change in CEO around 2024, and since then, the executive team as a whole has really gone downhill. Some have quit, while others were surreptitiously pushed out with no believable explanation. HR staff were laid off, while other non-essential staff were kept on due to their close proximity to executive leadership. It is clear that some of these new executives are lacking in proper experience to perform their duties, especially with regards to things like HR. There is also now a serious lack of transparency compared to the previous team. It has left all staff feeling uneasy and unsure about stability in the organization.

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