Year Up Reviews

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Make sure you want to work in the corporate world or you will be miserable

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Leadership is horrible, there are a lot of unethical things happening at this site ( with students and staff). When you complain to the National office nothing happens. It is the worst place to work. This organization should not be on the "Best Non Profits to work for" list. The ED is a horrible leader which is why retention is low. The staff is not happy and aren't treated right. The only reason people stay is to help the young adults.

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The LA office reminds me of being in high school again - the cool, popular kids get away with whatever they want to do while those who actually work get dumped on. Staff is entirely unprofessional and talk trash about students during their internal meetings, and are unconcerned with improving performance issues (internal or external). It's more important to spin everything as great and "sunshine", regardless of what the truth is. When it comes to difficult topics, site leadership puts their heads in the sand and defers to the younger, inexperienced and unprofessional staff who retaliate against those whom they don't like or are threatened by. Everything is based on "feeling" - and their feelings are rarely rooted in reality, but actually in their own internal insecurities. Be prepared for rule by consensus for everything - very much a mob mentality. Team is continuously late to meetings (even ones with clients), assuming they show up at all. Overall, the team is disorganized, chaotic, emotional and ineffective. To get ahead, be sure to be agreeable at all costs, keep your thoughts to yourself, and maintain the status quo. Lastly, pay is ~1/2 that of market rate.

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Program works on a cycle - can lead to burn out
Local sites are relatively small and can lead to staffing challenges

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Any new site comes with some growing pains and so we are still figuring some things out as we go. Could use a little more direction or "best practices" from other sites or leadership. But again, these things come with any new sites!

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Unpaid internship.
Hard finding prospective students to join the program.
Lots of driving.
Hours are long some days. Have to be there by 630 AM and end day at 6 PM.

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I have worked at Year Up NCR for about a year. It is one of the worst places to work for. The site has made so many changes that are impacting the students in a negative way. The executive director is unethical at times. Staff members don't have the same experience level and just shouldn't be working there. Students that graduate don't come back. Before YearUp made these changes it was a great place to work.

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Non profit which overworks its employees and spends too much time on the feel good and not enough on how to do the job.
Lack of management experience with how to identify and write business requirements for hand off to IT.

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Not very open and the salary is below average

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Year Up doesn't have many opportunities for their people to move up. They often hire external candidates rather than promoting within. The pay is extremely difficult to negotiate and they will start you on the lowest end. You'll often be told that there is no room for negotiation.