City Year: The Worst Year of Your Life - Corps Member City Year Employee Review

1.0
2 Mar 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The best reasons to work for City Year are 1) a job experience that will allow you to get any job you'd like when you're done, and 2) the education award.

Cons

1) 50+ hour work weeks with little to no time off permitted at less than $4/hour 2) Very poor health insurance 3) Total structural disorganization 4) Poor leadership 5) Blurry goals and vision 6) Dissonance between the ideals of the organization and the treatment of its workers

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5.0
29 Jan 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Community, connection, support, and its a great place for recent graduates to go until they figure the next step.

Cons

You won't make a lot of money.

4.0
22 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You do very meaningful work and the staff truly care about you and what you are doing.

Cons

School placements can be quite far from where you live, and the days are long (7:30 am - 5 pm). Often is exhausting, but you stay for the kids.

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