Ceres Employee Reviews
Out of 157 Ceres employee reviews, 92% were positive. The remaining 8% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Ceres improve their work culture. The Product team, with 95% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Ceres compared to all other departments at the company.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Leadership team shows it cares about all staff and works to be fair, just and transparent.
Our leadership team is all female.
The employees are top of mind
Our leadership team tries to be responsive to different concerns our employees have and to promote thoughtful strategies for the organization's growth and development.
Care about the employees wellbeing
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
The leadership at Ceres needs to get better at actually engaging with staff and not only talking to top-level managers. They need to be able to take constructive feedback better without taking it personally.
Data-driven decision-making and meaningful delegation of authority wherever possible.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
Summer Fridays and the week off between Christmas and New Years on top of our normal PTO and Sick time.
lots of unique benefits - health and wellness, etc.
Summer Fridays, $2000 stipend quarterly for employee use, benefits for office equipment like headphones and chairs, one week off over Christmas and New Year's in addition to our vacation time
Robust time off and vaca
Summer Fridays (half days in July and August) are a great comp during the summer.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Compensation should be higher and more in line with peer organizations. Health insurance benefits are touted as "excellent" but are expensive and do not cover routine doctors' visits outside a single physical a year. Time off could be better with the pay being so low.
Ceres rewards hard workers with more work but no additional compensation. Staff across the organization are often tasked with work outside of their responsibillites
Entry level pay may be competitive with other non-profits but that's not a high bar.
Junior staff are underpaid compared to other comparable NGOs.
Review from Product Dept
Salary is low compared to other environmental organization. Increase in compensation, pathway to promotion is created, equity in team reorganization/mid-year promotion, and transparency on pay increase/promotion decisions.
What are some of the best things about your team?
Our team generally has effective collaboration!
They are so smart, dedicated, and passionate, but they are also really fun people who are great to spend time with.
Everyone is very understanding and accepting of others.
We work hand in hand and they also give the space to learn and grow as an wonderful employee!
Everyone is very driven and dedicated to the work we do
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Working remotely is allowed and improves my life-work balance.
very liberal and forward facing.
The people at Ceres are what makes it special.
Our work makes a difference
We are constantly giving each other high fives and compliments on our work. It's a very satisfying environment, where you truly feel appreciated for your contributions
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
The company is growing at an unsustainable rate and employees are not feeling supported by the organization at large. Leadership and decision making bodies have become unclear and creates confusion when decisions need to be made.
What did you like most about the interview process?
There were layers of interviews from the program leader down to would be teammates. This offered the ability to understand the various work roles and get a sense of what to expect day one.
thorough process. met the entire team.
I got to meet most of my team members.
Getting feedback soon after the last interview
The number of people I was able to meet - at different levels of the organization.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
The feeling that I am contributing to something important and helping to solve the problem of making the connection between investment and emissions
working on topics that very important
The people that I work with
making tangible progress toward our mission
making a tangible impact in the world for the better
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Rapid growth of the organization has outstripped the current management capacity/style.
Our leadership cannot make decisions. They foolishly added a bureaucratic layer of VPs thinking that would help. Instead, it created another layer of management with no clear mandate. Then, they consolidated teams under a COO that many staff don't enjoy working with.
Review from Product Dept
What do you like best about your company?
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
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