Look elsewhere - Membership Director Board.org Employee Review

This is a true pulling ‘wool over your eyes’ situation. What you’re sold in the incredibly long interview process is not reality. New employees, regardless of experience or education, are put in an intern-level training program that lasts two months. You are not allowed to do the job you were hired to do until the two months point and when you begin the job, you realize how useless the training was. The role is a sales job (even though they have a full sales team that can’t sell) not a relationship role as described in the interview process. All that matters is email and call volume, not relationships. It is an incredibly disempowering experience. There is a huge divide between employees hired by the founder and those hired after acquisition by FiscalNote. As an employee post-acquisition, you will never be viewed as a fully trusted member of the team. There are favorites and everyone knows it. The founder created a cult-like environment and quickly got rid of anyone who disagreed or provided differing opinions. His leadership included white men who had never worked anywhere else. Unfortunately, those who stayed with the company after becoming a FiscalNote company keeps this non-inclusive environment alive. The parent company’s culture is completely different, so it was a great disappointment they didn’t put more effort in changing Board.org into a FiscalNote company. I would never recommend this company - apply elsewhere.