Pros
I had a great experience with the school that city year placed me in (not with anyone who actually worked on staff at city year)
Cons
City Year usually hires folks who just graduated from college and often times don't know how you deserve to be treated in the workplace. City Year staff takes advantage of this information and treats their AmeriCorps members like garbage. They say all these platitudes about self advocacy but punish you every time you try to do so. They pride themselves on growth and force "coaching conversations" on everyone, which is really just a way to get you to be vulnerable and get information to take advantage of you. My service year started with around 35-40? americorps members and finished with about 15. They did not dismiss acms with inappropriate relationships with students or acms who threatened violence against their coworkers but dismissed other folks with extremely ableist reasoning. Horrible place to work.