Frustrating but overall invaluable - Anonymous employee City Year Employee Review

3.0
26 May 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Networking Leadership opportunities Challenging Thinking Great group of intelligent young people Pushes your limits and forces you to grow and learn

Cons

The lack of information given to incoming corpsmembers was very frustrating and the support system for the health and well being, both mental and physical of the corps members was fairly unsastisfactory

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Cons

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3.0
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Cons

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