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Teach for America reviews

3.8

75% would recommend to a friend

(1,870 total reviews)

Elisa Villanueva Beard

84% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Teach for America has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,870 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Teach for America employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Educación industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Apr 12, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, admirable mission, flexible schedule and location (if you're on the national team, you can work from anywhere in the country)

Cons

Teach For America values people who can tow the line, put in 50+ hours of work, and blindly follow management. They say they value diversity of thought and want input, but they only want input and thought from people who blindly follow what Wendy says and what their manager thinks is right. Depending on the team, it can be very political and there is a lot of mistrust within a few of the teams. If you join, also be wary of your business partners--they say your relationship/communication with them is confidential, but they actually share everything with your manager. I've seen this happen with a number of people on my team. They were recently ranked in Fortune, but many of us were surprised as there's high turnover and overall low morale throughout the org. They have an admirable mission, but need to do something about their inexperienced managers who have only worked for TFA and have very narrow ideas of management. Also, as a whole, the staff are socially awkward (I'm not trying to be snarky...they'll admit it themselves).

1.0
Mar 19, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Mission oriented, good benefits, decent work life balance, networking

Cons

Colorado is currently bleeding staff because of the upper leadership. If you want to work for some of the most micromanaging and disconnected managers who belittle you and your work, commit questionable hiring acts, and generally don't care about you as an individual, TFA is for you.

2.0
Apr 13, 2015

Business Analysis, Product Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Talented colleagues, decent compensation, work-life balance, development opportunities.

Cons

Complete hypocrisy on part of the higher-ups. Management talks about "transformational change" while doing everything possible to avoid accountability. Problem-solving talk is popular; problem-solving action is unwelcome and makes people paranoid. Completely disheartening for those of us genuinely striving to create meaningful solution and running against endless brick walls. A lot of good people left. As the economy has picked up, fewer people have been joining TFA as teachers. 2/3 of TFA teachers quit before completing their 3-year commitment. Organization outlook is bleak.

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