City Year Reviews

Pros

See Results Learn team dynamic Educational Opportunities

Cons

Time-consuming high-level of effort required

Pros

- Making a difference - Feeling connected to a community - Challenging environment (helps with adaptability and development of cultural humility)

Cons

- Compassion fatigue is real (know your self-care routine) - Stipend is low for the rent you may have to pay - Long hours (but in a way, you get used to it)

Pros

Great cause, wonderful team, love the students, lots of opportunities to learn

Cons

poorly managed, you’ll have to drink the koolaid to get by, weird emphasis on the city year culture, ugly uniforms, depressing work environment with not enough pay, extremely emotionally exhausting

Pros

Working with students and lots of opportunities for professional development

Cons

Low pay and some tedious required work after school hours

Pros

Benefits, Feels like one big Family, advancement.

Cons

Long hours, small stipend, stress

Pros

The kids were the only good part

Cons

Low pay. Over work. Exhausting

Pros

The only pros about this job is getting to interact with kids and be their safe person.

Cons

Clicky-ness in management. No advocacy for Americorp members by team lead or Impact manager. Not mental health friendly. Doesn’t care about physical health.

Pros

- great opportunity to develop leadership experience - small teams (makes experience more manageable)

Cons

- support from upper management (both from campus and staff) is shaky. This impacts your experience SEVERELY if you have a trash team (because nobody will be held accountable and you’ll look like “a snitch”) - pay does not correlate with commitment

Pros

The people you immediately work with are fantastic. Whether they be your impact managers, coworkers, students, you are surrounded by many amazing people looking to make a different in the lives of students in need.

Cons

The pay is awful. 10.5 hours a day, with a few days of extra work at a rate that is laughably below minimum wage. The training for the job involves liberal identity politics and preaches inclusion yet uses exploitation and does not address any of the actual issues in our school system. The company would not exist without inequalities in our school system, and while their training encourage young people do attack and dismantle them, City Year is well aware that that would put them out of a job. A attempt to actually enact real change at a school will be met with so much push back from the higher levels. What is worse, is they will weaponize impact managers (who are usually ex-student success coaches, and not much older than the people they manage) to squelch any kind of real change that threatens the companies position. This can create animosity in the work place.

Pros

I feel like I make a difference in a way that matters in my work. All of the people I’ve ever worked with at this organization are genuinely good people. Great benefits package

Cons

Being in the impact department is challenging and does not feel equitable compared to other departments. We work longer hours and are often doing extra shifts/responsibilities that others are not being asked to do. It is more challenging to take time off of work, and in this department in particular being “present” for americorps members is at times made to feel more important than taking care of oneself