Great place to work - Associate RaiseMe Employee Review

- Impactful mission! As a former teacher, I feel grateful to work at a company making college more affordable to all students - Very smart, hardworking, and innovative team - Love the team - Inclusive and supportive culture - Encouraged to pursue professional development opportunities. I've been stretched a lot throughout my tenure at RaiseMe and it's pushed me to grow in ways I otherwise wouldn't have the opportunity to at a bigger company - Small start up means you're often writing the playbook and just learning a ton as you go

Typical startup challenges: lots of great, creative ideas met with limited bandwidth, you have to get good at navigating ambiguity, and work/life balance is possible but can be hard to maintain when there are a lot of competing priorities

- Smart, driven co-workers who bring 110% to the table and push you to be your best - Compelling mission in a sector that offers life-changing outcomes for user - Initial product well-designed and engaging

- Everything the previous reviewer wrote about management issues holding back stability, and the detrimental effect of having no professional HR support, I witnessed and experienced as well; leadership is dysfunctional and highly political - This results in an incredible amount of turnover, throughout all departments within the organization, at remarkable frequency even considering this is a start-up - Lack of user-listening: RaiseMe purports to support low-income and first-generation students who want to go to college, but those cohorts are an after thought in product development and business focus - Much lip service paid to company values and diversity initiatives that always seem to be "in development" and "coming," but never result in goals and action items that hold the company accountable - None of these points will be news to anyone in management reading these reviews, employees have repeatedly shared this feedback only to have their concerns challenged or minimized, with a loose promise that change is coming