3.0
Jan 14, 2016
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Current employee
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Pros
Brilliant colleagues, amazing fellows who are realizing genuine impact, cool projects with high-profile partners, widely recognized brand in the nonprofit world. Lots of opportunities to take on substantive work and high-level responsibilities for those who prove themselves.
Cons
Emphasis on hiring "entrepreneurs" and "changemakers" means staff is heavy on visionaries and high-level thinkers but often short on doers -- the operational people who actually get things done. Flat organizational structure means minimal upward mobility for early-to-mid-career people in their late 20s and early 30s. The organization is crazy even by nonprofit standards. Some days it's a wonder it holds together at all.