Pros
As an international development private contracting company, it was great experience to work with USAID's Bureau for Global Health through Camris International. Cameris encouraged learning and development and offered a small employee development sum. Benefits were good with a great 401K package.
Kontras
If you work for Camris under one of their contracts it can be hard to navigate an upward career trajectory. This is because you technically work for (get paid) by the contracted company (Camris); however, your work/deliverables and office relationships are carried out and formed within the contracting entity (like USAID). It was not uncommon to see or hear of conflicting information between both sides when an employee wanted to discuss career growth. Connected to this issue was the fact that Camris appeared overly beholden, in almost every sense, to the contracting entity, and (in my opinion) this allowed for the contracting entity to exert high levels of pressure on Camris, which could both be beneficial and harmful to Camris employees at times.