RSS

Work­ing at EA vs. non-EA orgs

TagLast edit: 13 Apr 2022 10:02 UTC by Leo

The working at EA vs. non-EA orgs tag is for posts that include arguments for or against pursuing jobs at organisations that explicitly identify with the “effective altruism” label, relative to jobs at other organisations. The tag is also for posts that include discussion of whether and why members of the EA community may be biased in one direction or the other on this question, and how to address that (e.g., how to raise the status—within the EA community—of high-impact work at non-EA orgs).

This tag is not intended for posts that discuss things like how the effectiveness of EA orgs tends to differ from that of non-EA orgs, except when those posts connect this to the question of where EAs should work.

Related entries

career choice | constraints on effective altruism | criticism of effective altruism | criticism of effective altruist organizations | hiring | research training programs | scalably using labour

There and back again: re­flec­tions from leav­ing EA (and re­turn­ing)

LotteG17 Mar 2024 22:59 UTC
40 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Get­ting into an EA-al­igned or­gani­sa­tion mid-career

Patrick Gruban8 Aug 2023 8:11 UTC
76 points
5 comments7 min readEA link
(www.highimpactprofessionals.org)

Con­sider Earn­ing Less

ElliotJDavies1 Jul 2023 12:45 UTC
123 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

What’s sur­prised me as an en­try-level gen­er­al­ist at Open Phil & my recom­men­da­tions to early ca­reer professionals

Sam Anschell30 Mar 2023 21:48 UTC
98 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] Can any­one re­as­sure me about EA work cul­ture?

anotherEAonaburner24 Mar 2023 4:56 UTC
28 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

EA’s in IT (In­for­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy)

EAlly18 Feb 2023 20:17 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] Rat­ings Direc­tory for Companies

Shemona Singh25 Jan 2023 1:05 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

(In­cor­rectly) Overem­pha­siz­ing Effec­tive Careers

Davidmanheim23 Jan 2023 20:03 UTC
43 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Opinion: EA-jobs in­ter­views are used by or­ga­ni­za­tions/​com­pa­nies as free labor

Vaipan21 Dec 2022 16:54 UTC
12 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

BOAS is hiring a CMO

Vincent van der Holst23 Nov 2022 8:46 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

How and when should we in­cen­tivize peo­ple to leave EA bub­bles and ex­plore?

Owen Cotton-Barratt17 Aug 2022 20:34 UTC
165 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What would you like to ask a se­nior staff mem­ber who joined a new EA-al­igned org with­out pre­vi­ous EA ex­pe­rience?

lukasj1028 Jul 2022 21:11 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Se­nior EA ‘ops’ roles: if you want to undo the bot­tle­neck, hire differently

AnonymousThrowAway9 Jul 2022 10:47 UTC
298 points
32 comments11 min readEA link

Jobs at EA-or­ga­ni­za­tions are over­paid, here is why

Cynwit8 Jun 2022 17:20 UTC
15 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

You should join an EA or­ga­ni­za­tion with too many employees

Ben_West21 May 2022 19:38 UTC
44 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

EA Tours of Service

Ben_West10 May 2022 17:03 UTC
59 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

The availa­bil­ity bias in job hunting

Vaidehi Agarwalla30 Apr 2022 14:53 UTC
105 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Is it still hard to get a job in EA? In­sights from CEA’s re­cruit­ment data

Akara29 Apr 2022 17:39 UTC
65 points
27 comments6 min readEA link

The case for not pur­su­ing a ca­reer in an EA organization

MarcSerna12 Apr 2022 18:54 UTC
15 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Ad­vice I’ve Found Helpful as I Ap­ply to EA Jobs

Akash23 Jan 2022 18:53 UTC
90 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Is it no longer hard to get a di­rect work job?

mic25 Nov 2021 22:03 UTC
38 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Early ca­reer peo­ple should con­sider join­ing fast-grow­ing star­tups in emerg­ing technologies

billzito10 Oct 2021 17:23 UTC
87 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing EAs’ use of non-EA op­tions for re­search train­ing, cre­den­tials, test­ing fit, etc.

MichaelA11 Sep 2021 13:52 UTC
23 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

More un­der­grad­u­ate or just-grad­u­ated stu­dents should con­sider get­ting jobs as re­search techs in aca­demic labs

jvb1 Sep 2021 9:02 UTC
41 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] How valuable is lad­der-climb­ing out­side of EA for peo­ple who aren’t un­usu­ally good at lad­der-climb­ing or un­usu­ally en­trepreneurial?

Linch1 Sep 2021 0:47 UTC
39 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

More EAs should con­sider “non-EA” jobs

Sarah Eustis-Guthrie19 Aug 2021 21:18 UTC
142 points
21 comments7 min readEA link

Exit op­por­tu­ni­ties af­ter man­age­ment consulting

Vaidehi Agarwalla16 Aug 2021 10:54 UTC
32 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Web Developer

mrk6 Aug 2021 17:09 UTC
22 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: Im­prov­ing the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline: Se­quence introduction

D0TheMath27 Jul 2021 0:56 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Nar­ra­tion: The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

D0TheMath24 Jul 2021 20:39 UTC
12 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

nadavb17 Jul 2021 6:37 UTC
137 points
24 comments13 min readEA link

EA needs consultancies

lukeprog28 Jun 2021 15:18 UTC
256 points
88 comments8 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion op­tions for im­prov­ing the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline

MichaelA28 May 2021 14:26 UTC
49 points
27 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] How many small EA orgs in need of work­ers are there?

D0TheMath20 May 2021 18:19 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

EA is a Ca­reer Endpoint

DirectedEvolution14 May 2021 23:58 UTC
109 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

What’s wrong with the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline?

MichaelA14 May 2021 18:38 UTC
68 points
21 comments7 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline: Se­quence introduction

MichaelA11 May 2021 17:57 UTC
63 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts on be­ing overqual­ified for EA positions

Ben_West30 Apr 2021 3:19 UTC
118 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble gaps in the EA community

Michelle_Hutchinson23 Jan 2021 18:56 UTC
96 points
19 comments8 min readEA link

EAs work­ing at non-EA or­ga­ni­za­tions: What do you do?

Akash10 Dec 2020 16:12 UTC
44 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Con­sider a wider range of jobs, paths and prob­lems if you want to im­prove the long-term future

Robert_Wiblin29 Jun 2020 14:48 UTC
149 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Keep­ing ev­ery­one mo­ti­vated: a case for effec­tive ca­reers out­side of the high­est im­pact EA organizations

FJehn22 Aug 2019 6:43 UTC
39 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

In­for­ma­tion se­cu­rity ca­reers for GCR reduction

ClaireZabel20 Jun 2019 23:56 UTC
187 points
35 comments8 min readEA link

Thoughts on 80,000 Hours’ re­search that might help with job-search frustrations

Arden Koehler16 Apr 2019 18:51 UTC
99 points
57 comments10 min readEA link

The ca­reer and the community

richard_ngo21 Mar 2019 12:35 UTC
93 points
35 comments15 min readEA link

EA jobs provide scarce non-mon­e­tary goods

Milan_Griffes20 Mar 2019 20:56 UTC
55 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

SHOW: A frame­work for shap­ing your tal­ent for di­rect work

RyanCarey12 Mar 2019 17:16 UTC
215 points
29 comments8 min readEA link

Get­ting Peo­ple Ex­cited About More EA Ca­reers: A New Com­mu­nity Build­ing Challenge

Sebastian_Oehm10 Mar 2019 7:35 UTC
66 points
19 comments10 min readEA link

After one year of ap­ply­ing for EA jobs: It is re­ally, re­ally hard to get hired by an EA organisation

EA applicant26 Feb 2019 5:53 UTC
388 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

Work­ing at EA or­ga­ni­za­tions se­ries: Why work at an EA or­ga­ni­za­tion?

SoerenMind18 Oct 2015 9:42 UTC
7 points
12 comments2 min readEA link