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Ticker Symbol Entity Name As Of Date Review Url Logo Company Author Title Author Location Author Country Summary Description PROs CONs Recommends Value Recommends Description Outlook Value Outlook Description CEO Review Value CEO Review Description Helpful Count Rating: Overall Rating: Work/Life Balance Rating: Culture & Values Rating: Career Opportunities Rating: Comp & Benefits Rating: Senior Management Rating: Diversity & Inclusion Company Id Company URL Advice to Management Not Helpful Count Employer Responses Employer Status Is featured? Is current job? Job Ending Year Length of Employment Company Website Company Industry Id Company Sector Id Date Added Date Updated Company Name Sector Industry
private:ideas42 https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=749812 Jan 19th, 2021 12:00AM Open Open ideas42 Senior Associate United States USA Do not waste your time The Harvard connection still gives this place some outside prestige For most people, pretty much everything will be a con. Toxic work environment. Narcissistic leadership. Kiss up, kick down culture. Poorly scoped projects. Insane workload. Largely insignificant impact of work. -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 DISAPPROVE 1.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 749812 Open Take the negative reviews here and staff concerns seriously and commit to making real organization-wide improvements. 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 0.0 Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM ideas42
private:ideas42 https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=749812 Jan 1st, 2021 12:00AM Open Open ideas42 Vice President New York, NY excellent organization stimulating work; smart, engaged, and caring colleagues none that come to mind at this time 0.0 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 749812 Open 0.0 [] PART_TIME No Yes 0.0 Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM ideas42
private:ideas42 https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=749812 Apr 15th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open ideas42 United States USA Depends on who you are this might be the place for you This place provides amazing benefits, unmatched by any other company you will ever work for. Not so much work if you're a slacker but could add value occasionally and know how to game the system. You will never be fired. Don't worry. Employee turnover is already high enough they don't want to lose headcount. No matter where the HQ is or how the org tries to brand itself, ideas42 remains and will forever be a Harvard think tank, full of jaded Ivy-educated elitists who daydream about making a real social impact on non-profit salaries. Ironically dysfunctional culture for a workplace that claims to "get" behavioral science. -1.0 NEGATIVE 0.0 NEUTRAL -1.0 DISAPPROVE 2.0 2.0 5.0 2.0 2.0 5.0 2.0 749812 Open Come out of your early retirement, get out of your house in the Hamptons, and actually put in effort to revamp this place or else good employees will just keep leaving 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 0.0 Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM ideas42
private:ideas42 https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=749812 Mar 25th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open ideas42 Senior Associate New York, NY Best learning workplace you could ask for I worked for 5 years at ideas42, and in that time learned so much. It was an incredible opportunity to apply behavioral science to real world applications. I became a better designer, project manager, data analyst, and presenter during my time there. The organization is delightfully flat, which means you can be the change you want to see in the organization. I couldn’t ask for a better set of colleagues, or a more meaningful projects to work on. And best of all the culture of feedback provides great opportunities for professional development. The working hours can be long, and at times intense. I had a lot of late nights working during my time there. I also had excellent colleagues during my time, and some not so excellent. Your individual experience will be dependent upon the projects you get assigned to work on and the managers who oversee your work. ideas42 is a great place to work if you are a self starter and can advocate for yourself, but can be challenging if you need more guidance and training. Finally, you will leave having learned a ton about everything - but that also means you’ll be a generalist. That’s good for pivoting your career wherever you want to go, but this is t the place to work if you want to specialize a specific skill set, or within a particular domain. 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 NEUTRAL 1.0 APPROVE 2.0 5.0 3.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 4.0 749812 Open I’ve actually given all my advice to management already — they are open to hearing how they can make work better and always looking to improve the organization. Growing pains can be hard to work through, but I think they’re on a pretty good track. 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 6.0 Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM ideas42
private:ideas42 https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=749812 Jan 2nd, 2020 12:00AM Open Open ideas42 Research Associate New York, NY Great place to learn Variety of research topics Good mentorship and generosity Lot of different types of skills to develop Fun culture with brilliant people Work life balance is lacking Experience depends highly on who your manager and team are 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 NEUTRAL 0.0 NO_OPINION 1.0 4.0 2.0 3.0 5.0 4.0 2.0 749812 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 4.0 Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM ideas42
private:ideas42 https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=749812 Nov 1st, 2019 12:00AM Open Open ideas42 Associate United States USA Great people and challenging work The people at ideas42 contribute significantly to a great working experience and office culture. Generally inquisitive and willing to think critically about the drivers of behavior, the team brings a good mix of academic rigor and implementation oriented approaches to the difficult problems we tackle. Team members are quite collaborative, happy to help with each others' professional development and place weight on forming fun, healthy working relationships. The organization prides itself for its transparent approach to strategic decisions, structure of remuneration and performance evaluation systems- this generally holds quite true. All major strategic/operational decisions by the senior management team are published to all and held to reasonable standards of accountability. The full structure of remuneration for every position/level and benefits are published. Performance evaluation systems are defined with specific criteria and the desired process of using those criteria for promotions sees good faith attempts at implementation and improvement. ideas42 cares about diversity and inclusion both from a standpoint of bettering the quality of the work produced and increasing sense of belonging in the workplace. The organization is internally honest about its successes (pipeline for junior staff) and scope to improve on this count (representation at more senior levels), and makes concerted efforts to improve hiring processes and organizational culture to achieve DEI outcomes. The salary and benefits are many steps above what one might expect from competitive non-profit roles that do similar work. Frankly, especially at junior levels, it is competitive with many for-profit consulting salary standards (and perhaps better benefits). Adding to the salary and benefits, the flexibility of work schedules and locations and very generous vacation allowance make the overall package highly competitive. Finally, ideas42 is deeply committed to social impact. This is reflected strongly in why people chose to work here, who is hired to work here and our criteria for finding work. Of course, considerations like the nature of philanthropic funding or partnership with large financial institutions lie in ethical grey areas, but that is a necessary bullet to bite to do any non-profit work today. But if it is important to you that any project you work on aims to forward only socially positive outcomes, ideas42 is a good choice. Behavioral science is a relatively new field, and like every other area in the social sciences, it is going through many struggles in its nascent stages. While a significant amount of core principles are well established, academics and consultants alike are still figuring out consistent translation of research outcomes into cross-contextual, predictably successful applications. While this can be exciting and present an opportunity to some, it can be a source of frustration for some others working in this space who either did not really sign up to improve how behavioral science can translate to intervention design, or, perhaps had a more concrete vision for how they thought behavioral science research might translate into practice (and were disappointed at what they found). ideas42 is positioned at a tricky place of being a design firm (much more so than a research organization), and yet needing to internally improve a methodology to translate research into practice- a process that is bound to take a lot more time than ideas42 staff have outside of project work. ideas42 is honest about facing this challenge. While not shying away from marketing the successes, there is general acknowledgment that there are failures and that the currently employed process is imperfect. However, as the organization grows, it is essential that behavioral science capacity building is not left to the wayside or improper/superficial behavioral science applications are not given passing grades. ideas42 is also going through some growing pains as it transitions from a scrappy start-up to an organization that needs to be more systematic, especially from an operations standpoint. While associated challenges in staffing and pipeline management are bound to present themselves, it is important that senior leadership appropriately assigns responsibility for any missteps and meaningfully distributes any repercussions of those missteps through the full team. Continued trust in leadership and team morale turns heavily on their signaling to the staff that, when push comes to shove, its transparent, non-hierarchical approach truly translates to a lack of immunity for anyone at any level with major performance issues, patterns in problematic internal relationship management or misconduct. 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 APPROVE 1.0 4.0 4.0 5.0 4.0 5.0 4.0 749812 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 2.0 Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM ideas42
private:ideas42 https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=749812 Oct 27th, 2019 12:00AM Open Open ideas42 Washington, DC ideas42 is a scam Some projects are well scoped and pose genuinely interesting problems to delve into. Unfortunately, most projects are badly scoped and overall ability to do work well is largely dependent on the quality of the VP or MD on the project. Senior team's lack of domain knowledge = poor execution. Most projects at ideas42 dont produce good results due to bad management and planning but these are accepted at "learnings" and get brushed under the rug. Internal politics result in bad quality work. Senior team members promote those that they like and silence those who speak out. While management touts a fair and transparent feedback policy, those who do speak up about senior team misconduct are pushed out. Ego driven decision making and senior teams' penchant for pushing work onto others (and calling it "opportunities for development) has led to a deeply unhealthy upstairs/downstairs culture. Collective senior team conduct is unacceptable. One MD is particularly creepy and regularly pulls new, young female recruits onto his team. Two other MDs aren't on speaking terms with each other. The CFO covered up Piyush Tantia's "creative accounting", gaining immunity from being fired over repeated (documented) harassment of female team members. One MD has lost contracts and is directly responsible for the departure of 6 junior staff, but continues to be employed here. The takeaway here is that ideas42 doesn't prioritize doing good work or employee morale; as another reviewer said, they want to continue bringing in business (and conning foundations & partners) at the expense of employee morale. Senior team uses the ideas42 platform to stroke their own egos and take home a hefty paycheck. It seems like they've lost any real drive, passion, or commitment to the work they originally set out to do. Josh Wright and Piyush Tantia are deeply flawed individuals. The organization is a direct reflection of their lack of humility and emotional intelligence. They routinely attribute a high turnover rate to "bad cultural fits" but haven't yet realized that most people leave because their leadership isn't inspiring. In reality, they are truly terrible people managers (and in Piyush's case, aggressively lazy), but their pride/ego will surely protect them from ever realizing it. -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 DISAPPROVE 10.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 1.0 749812 Open Fire toxic managers or at least provide them training so they can contribute instead of hinder 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 4.0 Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM ideas42
private:ideas42 https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=749812 Oct 23rd, 2019 12:00AM Open Open ideas42 Senior Associate United States USA Great people, interesting problems - Fun, talented, and genuinely caring coworkers that make it enjoyable to come into work every day. - Work on interesting, challenging problems with the potential to make a real difference - Flexible schedule, generous vacation allowance and benefits - Evolving projects and staffing to ~2 projects at a time ensures each day is different - Competitive salary for the nonprofit space - High flexibility to make your own decisions and take on leadership (could also be a major con if you prefer more structure and supervision) - Uneven work hours among the team and long work hours for some staff members - No formal training for managers leads to uneven management among senior team members (though performance is tracked and low performers coached) 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 APPROVE 0.0 5.0 3.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 4.0 749812 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 2.0 Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM ideas42
private:ideas42 https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=749812 Oct 2nd, 2019 12:00AM Open Open ideas42 United States USA The Bernie Madoff’s of the Non-Profit World - If you’re a trust-fund baby or have a rich partner in finance, this is a fantastic job with great benefits and decent pay that you can used to assuage your guilt and signal to your friends how much to pretend to care about other people. - Dinner party banter. When you’re summering in the Hamptons, what will you talk about? How will you explain why the help just doesn’t “get it”? How about a glossy, over-simplified, superficial pseudo-science that is just a shroud for your g-ma’s folk-wisdom? Don’t worry, it’s ok if you call it a “bias”. - No one ever checks any work or cares that all of the “behavioral science” ideas42 is based on are faulty, p-hacked studies with 30 students in the mid 90s at some random university. You can contribute to the meaningless body of knowledge with your own bad science! - Senior team cares first about appearance, so if you don’t tell that they work 20 hours a week from home, they won’t tell on you either! Must make sure that when it hits the fan, which it will, you’re not in the direct path of their ire -- there’s always a fall guy! - If you can fly under the radar, work that’s supposed to take weeks can be done in hours. No need to feel guilty, the process is worthless. - It’s a great crash course in how to cope with impostor syndrome because you, in fact, will be one. Just make sure to move on at some point so your career doesn’t remain a joke! - Build confidence knowing that even if you never gain any actual valuable skills, you can always grift large foundations that are in need of washing their corporate image. - Become a master of deception. Want to influence a group with your subjective opinion? Bam -- cite a “bias”! Need to get external stakeholders on board? Wham -- check out this sub-group analysis! - Great opportunity to learn how to manage up! Managing up is the word managers use when they have no idea how to manage you, and therefore but all the burden on you. You, too, can learn to manage up to an edgy dude or condescending woman who can’t regulate their own emotions or moderate their alcohol consumption. - Every Associate wants to be on an international project for the free travel and airline status. Unfortunately, because the organization has no money, this might not be possible for you. But, if you do get on an overseas project, remember to throw out rigor and processes -- you’re intuition as an ivy-league educated foreigner is enough to solve the world’s challenging problems - The Senior Team continues to receive dismal leadership reviews. In fairness, at least the organization takes the time to learn from this information. Most senior staff act committed to the social mission. That is until they are pulled away by the allure of a bigger paycheck from the Facebooks, Googles, and Morningstars of the world. - Complaints have been logged about an uncomfortable work environment. Have they been addressed? You can find out for yourself when you join. - You may get insulted by senior leadership behind your back. Don’t worry, though, everyone else does the same to them. -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 DISAPPROVE 14.0 1.0 5.0 1.0 3.0 3.0 1.0 749812 Open Maybe don't hire 50 more people over a few years and they fire dozens of them because you were too arrogant to realize you couldn't continue conning foundations into giving you money without producing any results. 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 4.0 Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM ideas42
private:ideas42 https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=749812 Feb 14th, 2019 12:00AM Open Open ideas42 Senior Associate Washington, DC A Great Place for the Right Person ideas42 is a great place to be if you love behavioral science and want to work on applying insights for social good. While the actual social impact of a given project can vary, I think the organization is pretty good about evaluating the pros and cons of taking on projects and being transparent about this. We've had some big wins that have made the world a better place. Our projects are often quite ambiguous: we're working on challenging problems that often mix structural and behavioral. For the right person I think this is thrilling, there's a real opportunity to own substantial work at junior levels and to move projects ahead based on your instincts and interests. But it can also be a bit maddening, we often reinvent the wheel on individual projects because there aren't many standard processes. I've seen a lot of negative Glassdoor comments about the work culture which strike me as odd, because I've found it to be incredibly supportive and fun. My colleagues are among the smartest people I've met in any context, and also tend to be really good and kind. I love coming to work with these people. See above regarding some of the challenges of ambiguity. The flip-side to being a values-not-process-driven organization is that sometimes there aren't structures in place to do things that should be pretty basic. There's substantial variation in how projects are run and how management works across domains. My experiences have largely been positive, but it takes some adjustment when working on new projects with a new team. 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 APPROVE 2.0 5.0 4.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.0 749812 Open We're growing so fast! Making sure that the culture stays intact seems crucial at this stage. The strategy can always use refining, but it feels like we're making progress. Please make sure that junior folks are looped in/bought in to that process. 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 2.0 Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM Mar 5th, 2021 12:11AM ideas42

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