Teach for America reviews

Elitist, abusive, incompetent and you are constantly overworked with no reward, with promises of a future made but always seeing unqualified outside candidates get positions you are qualified for. The Human Assets department believes that the best way to ensure a work-life balance and fair spread of workload amongst employees and management levels is by constantly revamping the "performance" review to take more time, while most at the managerial level appear to believe that the performance review is the one item on the table that lower-level employees don't have to worry about completing. Everything else, including taking on responsibilities that should be at the management level, is thrown upon the shoulders of those that receive the least compensation, recognition, and worst treatment at the lowest tier. One example is that "Coordinators," one of the lowest level positions are "Budget Trackers" while the Senior Vice Presidents are "Budget Managers." In practice, budget trackers are told to "manage up" the budget. This means they track, build, enforce, and present the budget to the "Managers" who just rubber stamp it and do none of the work. Be warned, Teach For America has Human Asset "Business Partners" who are assigned to several other teams. While they insist that if you have a problem with your role or your managers, you can speak to these Business Partners anonymously. This is NOT TRUE. They WILL report your conversations to your managers and every level above they find necessary. This was not only my experience but the experience of several other coworkers, a fact that has been confirmed to me by at least one Vice President and a Business Partner's assistant. Finally, if you are being hired into Teach For America at the management level or above, welcome to the glory days of your resume building as a social servant. You can live remotely, with all travel trips paid, work at home, reap great benefits, send most of your workload cascading on the shoulders of lower level employees that, unlike you, probably are taking a huge pay cut and living beneath their means, because they actually believe in the cause. Congratulations, you're in the club of CEOs on a non-profit holiday. For those recent college graduates and entry-level workforce employees who truly believe in making a personal sacrifice to work for a cause, welcome to the days of being underpaid, overworked, and stepped on. And when you finally decide to leave for a better place, I would recommend against still believing in those promises of great things in your future and good recommendations. I've seen more than a handful of people get burned by vindictive, two faced managers.

Undergoing quite a bit of change in recent years which can cause unrest and lack of clarity for employees.