- 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.
