I’ve been at Pew for about a year and I love it. I’m on a small team with a great boss. While there’s no telework, it is extremely flexible. I get in at 8 and leave at 4:30. It’s great for people with kids. I would say culture is very team dependent. It’s much less buttoned up than it used to be. No jeans, but I don’t wear a blazer to work. And my desk is pretty messy.

If you find a good team, it’s worth the move. Also, the retirement benefits blow my mind. My financial planner couldn’t believe it.

I worked there. Left four years ago. Almost no one from the same division I worked with at the time still works there. That should tell you something. But it is a very moneyed and well respected organization and it attracts very bright sharp hard working people. I am very curious to see if a new CEO will change the culture.

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Anonymous wrote:The Pew Research Center and the Pew Charitable Trusts are different organizations (PRC is a subsidiary of PCT). Which one are you asking about? The one that’s very polished with the controlling CEO and bad Glassdoor reviews is the Pew Charitable Trusts. The CEO just retired and they’re in the middle of a search for a new CEO.

I am looking at the Pew Charitable Trust. I didn’t realize that the CEO just retired. Do you know when that will be effective? That could change things significantly. I believe she has been CEO since the mid-1990s.

My understanding is that they’re hoping to finalize the search and announce the new CEO sometime this spring or summer.

I have a friend whose been there (PCT) for close to a decade, and I think a lot depends on the group you are in. In certain fields, Pew's work has a great reputation, and it will provide opportunities few other NGOs can. A deciding factor when my friend took her job was flexibility to pick up her kids etc, and she got that. She made a pretty big internal move a few years after joining that, if I understand correctly, was almost like applying to a new job. Since then, she's been generally happy with the day-to-day...and she's gotten the opportunity to basically do childhood dream job type projects that I'm doubtful many other orgs have. I don't know if she'll stay forever, but it's worth remembering that Pew will open doors many other orgs can't. That may or may not be sufficient to work there, but it should be a factor in your decision.

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Anonymous wrote:The Pew Research Center and the Pew Charitable Trusts are different organizations (PRC is a subsidiary of PCT). Which one are you asking about? The one that’s very polished with the controlling CEO and bad Glassdoor reviews is the Pew Charitable Trusts. The CEO just retired and they’re in the middle of a search for a new CEO.

I am looking at the Pew Charitable Trust. I didn’t realize that the CEO just retired. Do you know when that will be effective? That could change things significantly. I believe she has been CEO since the mid-1990s.

OP here - I just found this. https://pew.org/2FTEUQ5 I wonder how much of an impact her retirement might have on the organizational culture?

Anonymous wrote:The Pew Research Center and the Pew Charitable Trusts are different organizations (PRC is a subsidiary of PCT). Which one are you asking about? The one that’s very polished with the controlling CEO and bad Glassdoor reviews is the Pew Charitable Trusts. The CEO just retired and they’re in the middle of a search for a new CEO.

I am looking at the Pew Charitable Trust. I didn’t realize that the CEO just retired. Do you know when that will be effective? That could change things significantly. I believe she has been CEO since the mid-1990s.

The Pew Research Center and the Pew Charitable Trusts are different organizations (PRC is a subsidiary of PCT). Which one are you asking about? The one that’s very polished with the controlling CEO and bad Glassdoor reviews is the Pew Charitable Trusts. The CEO just retired and they’re in the middle of a search for a new CEO.

There is someone on the Political forum who says she works there.

I have never worked there, but did have a recruiter contact me last year and I took her call. She was very clear, no telework, and it sounded like a rigid culture. That was a dealbreaker for me.

Any recent feedback / insight into employment at the Pew Charitable Trust? The online reviews on Glassdoor are quite negative. I wonder if that is throughout the whole organization and at all levels? Any other insight? How about teleworking... still not allowed?

DH interviewed there and several other places. They offered him a job, then increased the title when he hadn't accepted after a few days but he heditated because the culture seemed stiff and he was also in final interviews elsewhere.
. He then turned it down for another role and was met with hostility for doing so. That made his vague unease more concrete....

I was contacted by a recruiter for a senior level position there and when I met with the recruiter he told me about the culture and how controlling the CEO is. Everything has to go through her. When I came in for the formal interviews, I noticed everything was all glass. No privacy at all and doors have to be open. I did not get a good feeling and felt blessed I did not progress with further interviews. Sometimes things happen for a reason. All that glitters is not gold.

My DH was contacted by a recruiter abput working there. After reading about the toxic culture on Glassdoor, etc, he told the recruiter he wasn't interested.

I interviewed at Pew. The culture is very...polished. You've got to dress up and keep your desk neat. As of two years ago, they had no telework policy.

They do have turnover because they tend to run campaigns for a certain amount of time, either hit their target or not, then move on. And, yes, there are lots of stepping stone jobs for younger people.

Pay was on the higher end for non-profits, and it's a great place to make connections and get your name out there.

I'm curious what the work culture is like. I'm also curious if there is a lot of turnover. Seems like a lot of seemingly professional positions/titles are open, but I wonder if they are meant as stepping stones for younger people who move on elsewhere?

I suppose I'm mid-career (early/almost mid-40s) at a nonprofit/advocacy org, and I'm casually looking around.