Pros
- Smart people - Nice office - Office closed 1 week in the summer as well as week btw/ Christmas & New Year's - Educator populations in schools reflects the populations/communities they're teaching (this is so important and great to see); if this diversity were carried through to leadership, they'd get 5 stars here.
Cons
- Sense of urgency seems conflated with expectations for instant results, leaving little room for iteration that supports long-term sustainable impact. - Culture expects & celebrates long-form memos (think 5+ word page docs) for projects across all sorts of functions; like writing papers on top of doing the actual day to day work - Pay is not competitive - Required to be in-office, shift from previous remote policy that caused dozens of people to leave the organization - Many teams regularly under-staffed - Those who do not come from education have to prove themselves constantly, are not as respected - High high burnout among school staff - Things that should be optional (attending work parties, off-hours events with no overtime, etc.) are used to negatively evaluate team members. - Management is hyper involved in select teams' work, with executive team expecting to review processes, progress, etc. that should be trusted to individual teams - Very low chance of/rate of promotions - Leadership among regions and the home office is not very diverse (race, backgrounds, work styles) and does NOT look much like the communities they serve.