Pros
- Excellent PTO package
- Good health insurance (but you have to pay into it)
- Wonderful, smart, supportive colleagues, including many at the program-director level
- Management makes an effort to contribute to staff professional development (occasional trainings + some professional development funds) and cohesiveness/wellbeing (outings, arts and crafts, parties, etc)
- Very good organizational reputation to support your next steps
Cons
- Unrealistically low salaries for program assistants/associates living in New York City (unfortunately, even the best PTO can't make up for this if you’re trying to pay off loans or similar)
- very few opportunities to network or learn from more senior colleagues outside your team
- few opportunities for advancement, partly due to the structure of the organization