Pros
The students that run programming, and the people.
Cons
TFP is full of incredible colleagues who work hard to serve students. Unfortunately, the co-founders are incredibly inept and massively unqualified for their roles. Kanya Balakrishna, co-founder and CEO, doesn't understand vision, strategy, and has very little business acumen. This has led to extremely poor financial decision making, and absolutely no clear direction for the org. Some of the mistakes have been: wasting millions of dollars on decorating a Union Square office we couldn't afford, losing a 2 million dollar contract by breaking every commitment agreed upon, losing a brand partnership by *also* breaking every commitment agreed upon, maintaining virtually no book keeping thereby wasting millions of dollars given for programming (that was most definitely *not* used for programming). The other co-founder, Andrew Mangino, who technically does not work at the company but is somehow behind every decision made, is equally unqualified. Everything said above and more is equally, with Kanya, due to his lack of experience and ability. The co-founders are great writers, great orators and really know how to sell a "dream". Don't be fooled. They may know how to write and speak, but they certainly don't know how to execute.