Pros
TPPF was a wonderful environment if you want to work with great people doing excellent public policy work. A lot of workplaces say "we're all friends" or "we're like family," but at TPPF it was truer than anywhere else I've ever worked. It was exciting to be part of the policy work that they do as well. For people who want to make a different in conservative policy circles, there are very few places better than TPPF to have that kind of impact.
Cons
Benefits and salaries were often lower than what many people realistically need to survive in downtown Austin, TX. There's also a fair amount of turnover, largely because people are able to use working for TPPF as a resume builder for lateral or upward movement into various public policy roles at other organizations, elected or appointed government roles, or running political campaigns. So the ~35% of the staff who have been there for longer than 3 years or so seem to carry a disproportionate level of the workload, and occasionally new hires are expected to take on more than their job description would suggest in order to make up the bandwidth issues from people who leave after short tenures.