Great Culture - Deceptive Compensation Practices - Director AARP Employee Review

3.0
21 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the nicest people you will ever work with. Strong social mission and people really care about each other. You do get the bonus each year.

Cons

Senior leadership (VP and above) need serious development. The bonuses at this level are so extreme that most (not all) just focus on getting their bonus. Also, there is extreme downward pressure on wages. My salary was frozen for 5 years and they finally came out and admitted that they were changing the pay ranges. I went from having $40 of upward mobility, to being told I was over the salary cap. They say they won't cut your pay, but what they do is make it impossible for you to change positions. They would not consider me for VP positions that I was clearly qualified for, and if I had taken a lateral position they said I would have to take a $25K pay cut.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

great benefits even for interns like free lunch, reimbursed parking, hybrid work. good opportunities to network, hone your skills, and potentially get a permanent role within the organization.

Cons

long onboarding. lots of hr training.

2.0
2 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

benefits are strong - pension, vacation, sick, caregiving work life balance is generally good

Cons

AARP suffers from a serious toxic work culture, particularly in the IT and Digital Transformation departments. Leadership is atrocious. People leading the 2 key technology functions for the business are incompetent and ego maniacs. Both departments are extremely toxic with burned out employees and contractors. Money gets wasted in the extreme due to these factors. Constant signal switching on projects and priorities. Everyone you work with is unhappy. Bullying and retaliation are common. Avoid these departments in particular, but the whole organization is top heavy, with terrible leadership all around. Still there are some great and talented people, but it's not the norm, and senior leadership is wrought with incompetence and arrogance. The organization flails around endlessly, and blows money with no discipline or rigor to their work and methods. Think someone is juicing the Glassdoor numbers with people saying the place is great. No opportunity for growth. The organization tries to do good work, and does in many ways, but it's so poorly run that it severely hampers its potential.

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