Good place to get experience - Project Manager DAI Employee Review

4.0
5 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting projects; colleagues are all kind and hard working; opportunities to travel. Good place to see and experience how big projects are managed and delivered.

Cons

Death-by-admin; lower salaries; and a myriad of systems and processes slow everything down and numb the brain. You can feel detached from the project delivery on the ground. Ultimately, DAI is a management consultancy. In turn, the team recruited on the ground does all the interesting work, DAI's role is to manage everything behind-the-scenes. If you love pure project management (contracts, budgets, etc), then this is the place for you. If you're more technically minded, and interested in analysis and research, then it's maybe a good place to grab some experience, but not somewhere for you long-term.

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5.0
26 Jan 2026
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Pros

Highly professional, top notch technical experts in several fields

Cons

Work subject to USG funding

4.0
6 Feb 2026
Recommend
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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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