YSS Reviews

3.9

68% would recommend to a friend

(78 total reviews)

Andrew Allen

68% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

YSS has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 78 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The YSS employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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78 reviews
1.0
4 Jul 2016

Don't Send Your Enemy Here!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Looks good on a resume

Cons

Mentally disturbed adolescents that belong in a facility instead of rehab but Iowa is crap for mental health, poor training, no support from co-workers or supervisors, low compensation, cultural insensitivity all around, and overall negative work climate.

4.0
29 May 2014

Wonderfully diverse and family first mentality

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Direct supervisors are outstanding and well selected, facilities are very nice, lots of training and continuing ed. opportunities, coworkers become like family

Cons

way low pay makes for high turnover, new grads coming to work at YSS either go back to get masters degree or use positions for stepping stones because they cant afford their student loans on their salaries. Pay freezes and lack of financial reward to those employees that stay on and carry the programs on their backs.

2.0
7 Jul 2023

CEO is a narcissist

Recommend
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Pros

The mission, helping the youth we serve

Cons

Vastly underpaid, the CEO is a narcissist, every department is only out for themselves, no one works together, they all compete for the same grants and donor money. They promote and hire a lot of unqualified people just because their story, including the CEO who used YSS services when he was a youth. The whole organization is a toxic work environment from the top down. The CEO is abusive to sr leadership, and trickles down through the supervisors

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