IFRC reviews

4.1

96% would recommend to a friend

(216 total reviews)
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Tadateru Konoé

94% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

IFRC has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 216 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The IFRC employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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216 reviews
1.0
Oct 7, 2019

A beaucracy's bureaucracy

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Pros

In theory, there is so much good that could happen.

Cons

- Rules change depending upon the person you speak with. - Favoritism and allocation of staff and resources is heavily swayed by personal relationships rather than need and workload. - The internal structure is unnecessarily duplicative (paper and digital copies, physical signatures, digital sign-offs with paper replicas). - Industrialism mentality to work (must be physically present and under a strict eye of a supervisor in order to complete the task) - High tendency to hire a single person when two are needed (long hiring delays and gross under resourcing of staff) - Leadership is predominantly white male with echo chambers within some of the circles - Policies are endorsed without testing (resulting in endless frustrations when accidentally caught as the first person trying to follow the rules) - Nonchalance to employee contracting. Received a contract the day my prior contract ended, as well as after my contract had started. At the National Society level, acceptance of staff members becoming "volunteers" when payments and contracts lapse.

4.0
Sep 24, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Very exciting and meaningful work. I worked as a guide for the Red Cross virtual reality experience in which groups of students, mostly elementary and middle school children but also college students would come visit the Danish Red Cross headquarters in Copenhagen Denmark and learn about Red Cross intiatives through interactive virtual reality workshops. The experience covered topics from natural disaster relief, aid in war and conflict, domestic abuse intervention and first aid. The main goal of the experience was to teach children about the state of the world, what red cross does to improve peoples lives and inspire people to pay it forward and think about what they can do to make the world a better place. The staff was also very friendly and it was a blast helping out.

Cons

Work is volunteer so there is no pay.

3.0
Sep 4, 2019

Good experience

Recommend
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Pros

Professionality and food peoole in general

Cons

Not easy to work in this environment

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