Great team but poor retention incentives - Activity Associate DAI Employee Review

4.0
Dec 6, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The team dynamics are excellent and there's an opportunity to interact with some senior market actors in almost any development space imaginable.

Cons

There are little to no retention incentives, especially on project work. You will likely need to leave the company in order to advance in title and commensurate pay

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5.0
Jan 26, 2026
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Pros

Highly professional, top notch technical experts in several fields

Cons

Work subject to USG funding

4.0
Feb 6, 2026
Recommend
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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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