Bullies galore - Investigator The Sentry Employee Review

Check out the reviews at The Enough Project which is the former name. More than ten years of negative reviews and it's only getting worse.

Extremely toxic senior management. The company doesn't seem to be able or willing to resolve the problems despite several rebranding and restructuring attempts. I agree with all the other reviews and wish I had read the reviews before joining.

Interesting work, colleagues from all over the world, and celebrities that champion the cause.

The organization has so much potential which is ruined by a toxic culture. See the 20 reviews at The Enough Project which is the old name of the organization. Still the same problems as 10 years ago despite past external assessments. They are reorganizing (again) since last year but things have only gotten worse with new management promoting in-fighting and ruling through fear. Toxic personnel is known to shout at and demean staff, spread rumors, block publications, and elbow their way into other people's jobs. Nonetheless, these are the kind of people that are promoted. A country head quit when all of a sudden someone else was promoted into their position. You can’t get anything published if you’re not favored and when you bring up issues, they spread rumors about performance issues. It’s like being back in high school only this time it means that essential information about human rights abuses isn't made public. Someone else quit when they were asked to backdate an internal policy document. Eight staffers were let go because of budget issues and more are expected to be let go. As a result, the org doesn’t have investigative teams in former priority countries: Sudan, CAR, DRC, and South Sudan. It won’t be long before the org becomes irrelevant as it doesn’t know what’s happening on the ground. Key positions in operations, editorial, and policy are vacant. Some vacancies have been filled with toxic and opportunistic people from within the ranks who lack the necessary experience. All the highly skilled and decent people are quitting in droves. The founder has been made obsolete while he is the only one with actual development experience. The org uses contractors even if they have been working full-time for years. Everyone outside the US is a contractor. When recruiting they say the contractor status is just temporary and they promise an employee contract "soon" but they haven’t followed through for anyone. There’s a large pay gap between contractors and staff, between old-timers and newer personnel. The org doesn’t have a standard code of conduct detailing how to protect sources and store data. One investigator is known to hide their affiliation and published leaked documents without consent. On multiple occasions, after a report was published they wanted to share data with law enforcement only to find that key documents were missing. And they sensationalize headlines which harmed the credibility of the org in the past. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Don't work with them.