Good group - Director Taxpayers For Common Sense Employee Review

You'll never meet a more hardworking staff. Everyone is helpful. There's a real sense of camaraderie here. Beer o' clock Fridays. Office dogs. Incredible work-life balance. Clear cut internal communications. Personal development when work is slow. You really feel like you're part of a family and to be honest, it's a godsend in the DC area. I'd work there again in a heartbeat.

-It's a small nonprofit and that means low pay. -It got a little bit strange pushing views I didn't agree with but that's non-partisanship in DC for you. - Sometimes work gets a little too intense for TCS' size. Those days you tend to look into your wallet and feel like the work and pay don't quite balance out.

Everyone at TCS is deeply intelligent and a good person, trying to make a positive difference in the world.

TCS, as an organization, is stuck in a bit of an identity crisis. It tries to be three things at once: an informative source of information for the general public, a wonky resource for experts, and an effective advocate for taxpayers. Unfortunately, because of confusion at the top about what TCS should be, it does none of those things effectively. Certain members of TCS seem to recognize this (they told me as such), but their efforts are constantly hampered by indecision at the top. One executive level staffer (out of the four) is particularly bad at this. They are much more concerned about TCS’ public image and relationships with decision makers than they are about advocating for what TCS supposedly stands for. Many times, this staffer would pull down projects, products, and social media for “optics” because one political party would be on TCS’ bad side more than the other. Some program areas (Agriculture and NatSec) seem to understand that being nonpartisan means having a consistent set of ideals, and working with anyone who is willing to support those ideals, rather than only having ideals when there is widespread support for said idea. Ah well, I digress. I truly believe that TCS could be a great organization, and don’t get me wrong, their analytical output is second to none, but I truly worry about their mid to long term strategy, especially under a second trump administration.