Pros
- relationships that you build with students and their families - some people that you work with are really interesting and passionate people
Cons
- awful health insurance - the leadership is wholly unprepared and undertrained. This will trickle down to you, as it is nearly impossible to be an effective tutor without a supportive site director. - confused mission. Leadership sends you mixed messages and holds you accountable for things totally out of your control (like their math class grades). - almost zero professional development - false promises to many of my colleagues about opportunities for growth within the organization. - promoting is entirely based on who likes you. - very very high turnover - company culture is centered around petty politics and negativity - organization claims to value feedback, but never responds to feedback or make changes based on feedback - really fast growth resulting in lack of transparency and lack of focus on improving the existing programs. Problems just don't get fixed. - culture of not trusting management all the way from the top to the bottom. - you know the pay going into it - but the pay gap between tutors and Site Directors is insane. A start-up non profit laying their "leadership" $55,000+ in their first year is unheard of and a gross misuse of funding. You can't help but feel mistreated when you're making hardly over the poverty line and you look to your right and see your Site Director napping at their desk or watch them stroll in an hour late almost every day. Zero accountability. - the worst is how shady some of the people in leadership positions really are. You join because you're passionate about bringing change but one talk with the CEO will make you feel like you're working for a for-profit company that is purely focused on numbers instead of the actual students.
