Pros
-Mission driven colleagues
-Beautiful office across the street from Echo Park Lake
-Learning opportunities for state and local policy work
-External equity lens
-PTO
-Structured and organized
-Opportunities to work with amazing grassroots organizations and a wide array of other partners
Kontras
-No HR department so there are so many instances of harassment that get swept under the rug.
-Failure to complete an insane amount of work is blamed on “time management” issues
-Especially during the pandemic, not accommodating to parents.
-No growth opportunities; they created additional “tiers” for management including “senior manager,” meanwhile their front facing staff don’t have access to promotions into management.
--Some promotions do happen but only for those who don’t question nor have any negative feedback about the org or their leaders, even if it’s factual, objective feedback.
-Low wages (comparable to other similar orgs), except for management.
-Inequitable distribution of projects and opportunities.
- Prefer to hire Ivy Leaguers and those with law degrees fresh out of school with little/no experience over people with actual community and/or policy experience.
-In dire need of a union to represent employees. The DC office has it but they’ll never allow the LA office to do the same.
-MASSIVE turnover.
-No exit interviews.
-Will not hesitate to exercise at will and fire for no reason.
-They would rather hire not as competent outsiders than promote their highly qualified staff. That happened to a few of their people this year.