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Inter-American Development Bank

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Good salary, mediocre work - Anonymous Inter-American Development Bank Employee Review

2.0
23 Apr 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Salary + benefits + carrier (if you are a Colombian)

Cons

If you are not a Colombian you're in trouble. Management style is the political "either you are with me - or against", which limits innovation, creativity and initiative. The result is a development bank loosing market share to the CAF, the World Bank and CABEI. Unfortunately the IDB is no longer THE reference for Latin American issues.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent benefits, culture and opportunity to make a real impact.

Cons

There is bureaucracy across the organization. Vertical career progression can be slow.

2.0
3 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work with elitist Spanish speaking Latin Americans who are xenophobic for people that speak other languages, who have processes, paper pushing and career progression as major objective, not real development outcomes (eradicate extreme poverty & improve quality of life in LAC).

Cons

Bureaucracy. Outdated development agency. Abusive to and misclassifying contractors. People who don’t know what they are doing or talking about. Delivers trash projects and pulls impoverished countries further into national debt. Technocratic and too much focus on metrics, not impoverished people’s lived experience.

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