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Fascinating Projects - Shameful Politics - Anonymous employee Inter-American Development Bank Employee Review

2.0
13 Mar 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great place to learn about Latin America. Interesting projects. Good salary - excellent benefits. Access to governments and companies throughout the region. The name opens doors. Stay a few years but don't stay too long unless you are a political animal and dont believe in a merit-bases world.

Cons

The IDB is highly political in the worst possible way. In the reorganization of the private sector, the people heading the transition team awarded themselves the top jobs and the new head of investments proceeded to liquidate all the existing management and retain her cronies. HR set up bogus interview panels that all received instructions from the same person. The career management system is a joke - it all depends on who you know not what you know.

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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
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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 Outdated development agency.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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