Low salaries, toxic environment, poor management - Associate DAI Employee Review

1.0
15 Jul 2024
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Pros

DAI is a good start but leave after 2-3 years!

Cons

Rude & passive aggressive managers and lots of gossiping in the teams. Micromanaging managers. Hard to move up. Low salaries. Poor management. Constant Reorganizations. Long hours of work and leadership do not appreciate any work done. No overtime. Salaries are not annually adjusted for inflation. Under-resourced teams in which you have to do someone's job.

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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
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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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