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Inter-American Development Bank

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1.0
1 Jan 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Salary, but depends on many factors staff or consultant etc. Slow pace of work. Great if this is how you want to end your career. Gym, cafeteria and credit union.

Cons

Not much to add since many reviews have covered all bases. If you are hired as a consultant run fast and far from here. The young motivated and well educated have a lot to lose here. After years they will hire only those politically connected. Chances are that you are not political if started as consultant. Moving to staff is almost impossible, like winning the lottery. This place has all the same problems that undermine the institutions of the very same countries they pretend to help. Highly hypocritical. Very wasteful, they spend millions in projects and unnecessary missions. No transparency and accountability with their funds. Permanent workers (staff) do not have incentive to work hard as they have security for life. Staff keep hiring consultants to dump all their work they don't want to do. About consultants, as soon as they realize that they will never be promoted to staff, after 1 year or less they are completely demoralized. Slow pace of work, lack of career progress, few chances to show your innovative drive are factors to consider before you move here. Hard to be hired after working as a consultant here.

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5.0
28 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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
CEO approval
Business outlook

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 Outdated development agency.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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