Stay away for your mental health's sake - Program Manager WE Employee Review

Great experience and exposer for young workers. Opportunities for travel.

Lower-end pay & irregular hours

Okay salary, company expenses are covered, staff is hardworking, technology is good

If you are interested in doing real work for youth empowerment and social justice, do not work here. You will be given work that ultimately only serves corporate donors' interests, regardless of what local communities need or what program managers advocate for. You'll find that you need to get in bed with upper management in order to have a future with WE, as well. Sharing a difference of opinion is not valued or tolerated. Rather, you'll find a bunch of cliques and staff who seek out opportunities to flaunt their work for credit. The nonprofit, team-oriented culture of promoting one another's success is just not there. It's sad to see so much money poured into an organization that is not committed to or grounded in social justice, but that so easily fools the public into believing it is. This is precisely why corporate donors love WE - they can portray an image of goodness through sponsorships without having to reconcile the ways in which they are creating social injustices within their respective companies. Please stay away from WE if you don't have the stomach for worshiping the founding brothers who insist on remaining a strong focus of WE messaging despite their clear lack of understanding of what true social justice entails. They'll do whatever it takes to keep WE running, even if it means laying off employees left and right who bring a different perspective, or in order to preserve a meaningless program (marketing ploys, lavish feel-good events) to satisfy corporate donor contracts.