Mismanagement destroying employee morale and raising internal control risks - Anonymous employee AARP Employee Review

2.0
28 Jul 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The team that I worked with was full of friendly employees that came to work and wanted to work hard and do a great job. Work-life balance was good and lots of good work could have potentially been done. Camaraderie was high amongst staff.

Cons

Bad managers did their best to divide and conquer the staff to ensure no challenges. Employees were kept in a state of constant fear that there would be reprisals for speaking ones mind, even if it was in the best interest of AARP as an organization as a whole. This problem of insufferable management was known to exist by the C-suite, but nothing was done to rectify situation unless the problem became untenable.

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5.0
28 May 2026
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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
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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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