Frustrating but overall invaluable - Anonymous employee City Year Employee Review

3.0
May 26, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Networking Leadership opportunities Challenging Thinking Great group of intelligent young people Pushes your limits and forces you to grow and learn

Cons

The lack of information given to incoming corpsmembers was very frustrating and the support system for the health and well being, both mental and physical of the corps members was fairly unsastisfactory

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Well-organized/structured Transportation, healthcare, and AmeriCorps benefits Lots of teambuilding

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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