Pros
The mission is amazing, and they’re great and hiring incredible people. Given how many employees get hired and then quit, you’ll make a lot of great friends!
Cons
You see the Facebook posts and you follow the Instagram page. Everything looks cute and you think you’d love to be a part of the team, I get it. But trust me, don’t waste your time or labor working here. Beyond the very positive public image, the organization is a disaster internally. Management is untrained and unqualified with no real work experience outside the nonprofit. The founder consistently makes inappropriate remarks; from racist comments, to rape jokes, to renaming employees. The work environment often becomes hostile between employees and management. In my two year tenure with the company I can count over 20 employees that have been on the team and quit (plus a handful more that have been fired, some justified some not) because of the same issues that never get resolved. This turnover rate is especially startling given the average staff size floats around 15 people. Instead of listening o employees and addressing their concerns, management will make deals with employees to get them to quit. Favoritism and nepotism play a role in employee treatment. Overall it’s just a very unethical and hostile place to work for. Employees are not valued and the mindset of management is, “if you have a problem then you should leave,” and employees that bring concerns to management are often called “ungrateful.” In response to my letter of resignation the founder responded with, “what a joke.” If you’re reading this, you’re better than this organization. Keep looking for a more respectable work environment. In the two years I worked there, nothing changed or got better. It’s a cycle of employee harassment and mismanagement.
