Find yourself a better opportunity - Anonymous employee Year Up United Employee Review

So many cons. The pay is slave wage. The teachers, advisers and mentors are kind of useless. So you get set up with an internship but nobody knows what you will do on the internship until you get it. Until then they just teach you things that will never be used at the job. Kind of a waste of time right? Everybody in the program gives vague general advice about careers that you can find on google. A lot of politics and you see people being favored which lowers morale for the students. When you get the internship its a mixed bag. Sometimes you can be doing a lot and your team needs you or you can be doing nothing your whole time there. Why year up sets up students like this? I have no clue. Leads to tons of hopelessness. At the end of the day it's like a recruitment agency trying to hit numbers disguised as a non profit. Many year up graduates I know went back to the same old jobs they had before the program.