Development - Anonymous employee DAI Employee Review

4.0
3 Dec 2021
Anonymous employee
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Pros

DAI is full of excellent people who are in development because they want to make a difference. There is a big focus on realizing a vision of being a global development company - with corporate offices in London and Belgium, but also Nigeria and Pakistan.

Cons

The corporate team above all of the different business unit is exactly that: corporate. While it is always clear they want to make money, it isn't always clear they want to make the world a better place. This sometimes results in a large disconnect between them (especially the CEO) and staff.

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Pros

Highly professional, top notch technical experts in several fields

Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Strong culture of integrity. Absolutely spectacular colleagues. Super interesting work.

Cons

Basically denuded of staff due to USAID cuts. Upper management had become obsessed with performance against metrics that were poorly fit to the business, and were focused entirely on how they might meet those metrics this week, without looking ahead to how to make structural improvements over the longer term.

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