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Working at Generation USA includes a number of problems. A fundamental problem is that the CEO has misled funders about what is possible. This leads to regular revising of goals, a loss of credibility and poor employee morale. It hurts employees to lead them to believe in a goal, fail to achieve it, and then move on like nothing has happened. Most people who join a mission-driven organization do so to achieve the mission, so the feeling of constant failure stings. A small group of people move up in the organization but there are few systems to help anyone else. There's no real performance evaluation system. The DEI effort went nowhere in its first year. Regular re-orgs mean that many employees don't have the time or resources to establish themselves in a role. Ultimately, this has real impacts on learners, who are supposed to be the point of the organization. When instructors are hired last-minute, program quality suffers. When there's no real business development strategy, learners are on their own to find jobs. If you join Generation, be prepared to be lied to by management, hope to get lucky during a re-org, and find yourself with no real support.

A major downside is that Generation USA is not a stable place for you to build a career. A lot of the workers here are in their positions because they know someone not because they are good at their jobs. This was most evident during the last round of layoffs. If you do decide to work here, I recommend cozying up to management and hope they keep you around during the next round of layoffs. I also don’t want to call the company a scam because a lot of good honest people that work there, but I am convinced that the leadership have been funneling money from the organization and that the company is basically a scam. They lie to their funders, to the students who sign up for the programs, and to their staff. Please, if you have bills and responsibilities and need stability, do not accept a position here.