City Year Los Angeles - Anonymous employee City Year Employee Review

3.0
Jun 25, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great experience for a year - Part of AmeriCorps - Good inside look in non-profit organization - Working with kids - Staff members generally nice

Cons

- No communications within organization - Disorganized - Some staff members are rude and incompetent - Experience highly dependent on which team you got put in - Some Corps Members are definitely not qualified

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

connecting with the students will be one of the most rewarding takeways.

Cons

- lack of admin initiative, at times it feels we are being criticized for our job when we get paid crumbs (11$ and hour after tax, california).

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