company mantra focuses on appearances and doesn't address real issues. - Anonymous employee City Year Employee Review

2.0
4 Feb 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you work with the right people the experience can be tolerable to great. Some mid-level managers are really sharp and care about their employees.

Cons

Not sure what to emphasize or where to begin; I could spend days on this. The review about Senior Leadership favoritism is absolutely true: the team has nearly doubled the last 4 years, and they are all 'yes' men who've been there forever. Rather than listing all the cons, I think I'll conclude by saying that there is a huge mantra of hiding problems rather than addressing them. They claim to be a data-driven organization but have few data, and a lot of it isn't that positive. They claim "diversity" to be one of their most precious values, but their Senior Leadership is 90% white, and I've yet to see more than hot air on the topic.

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