Vantaggi
You work for a good cause, contributing to a better world. Multicultural environment is great. There is a lot of staff committed to the mission and working together for a better world, not only in their role but in their personal time too. Projects are super interesting and it’s a great place to learn, because of the work and complex projects you work on. Despite the gender gap, there are some concrete actions to reduce it. There is a lot of effort in increasing transparency, teamwork and eliminating discrimination and negative hierarchies but there is still a lot to do.
Svantaggi
Too much politics. In half of the departments the heads/directors reward loyalty instead of performance or capacity. There is still considerable discrimination vs national staff (normally paid 1/5 of foreigners), vs women, vs young staff and vs administrative staff (scientist are always right whether they actually know what are they talking about or not). There is no professional development plans and most supervisors are appointed because of personal favors or because they are technically good in their field but not because they know how to supervise. There is a lot of harassment and the compliance officer only takes care of cases where the harasser is not her friend.