CAMRIS Reviews

Though CAMRIS has final say over your salary, they had no insight into our actual performance and it could be frustrating to have salary and employment decisions made by someone without information about our day to day performance. Also the change in contracts due to expiration/extensions/etc added a lot of uncertainty about benefits, and CAMRIS was not great at communicating on how those would affect our pay and status.

If you work for Camris under one of their contracts it can be hard to navigate an upward career trajectory. This is because you technically work for (get paid) by the contracted company (Camris); however, your work/deliverables and office relationships are carried out and formed within the contracting entity (like USAID). It was not uncommon to see or hear of conflicting information between both sides when an employee wanted to discuss career growth. Connected to this issue was the fact that Camris appeared overly beholden, in almost every sense, to the contracting entity, and (in my opinion) this allowed for the contracting entity to exert high levels of pressure on Camris, which could both be beneficial and harmful to Camris employees at times.