Do Not Expect Much - Human Resources DREAM Employee Review

1.0
22 Aug 2021
Recommend
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Pros

You will meet some of the most amazing dedicated people here. One thing Dream does well is hiring people who truly believe in the mission.

Cons

I worked on Dreams talent team for two year in an HR capacity on the talent team and I have never experienced a more unsafe and dishonest place. Leadership never hires anyone with real talent experience to run the team, which is why it's constantly struggling. The first Chief Talent officer was the spouse of someone in leadership and was put in the position without any interviews and with no input from the current team. There were never enough people for the amount of work going on. One recruiter was expected to hire 300 plus people in 4 months without any help. And if that recruiter couldn't make their deadlines they could full expect for that to be held against them when I came time for rasies. The team will also push out anyone who has even slightest critique of how things are being done even if they are doing amazing work. It's a very authoritarian environment where you can fully expect retribution. While working in HR I was told to look the other way on several employee rights violations and to shred documents of peoples complaints. To give an idea of how all of this effects the team, during the two years I was on the talent team I saw 12 coworkers leave and had 5 different managers.

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5.0
11 Jul 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Enthusiastic staff, gifted kids, leadership open to improvements/always changing, lots of support, lax schedule

Cons

Punishment/disciplinary methods are supposed to be consistent by book but in practice every educator has their own -and very different- method. Kind of confusing for both kids and staff. Don't know if this is related but there's definitely a kid favoritism/teacher's pet energy going on. One actual con is that the behavioral and competence range is HUGE and it's kind of dismissed. Some kids are extremely gifted and hardworking, others cause problems everyday and are evidently behind. Doesn't only cause tensions between the kids but is also hard to manage - makes the whole "we are family" method feel like we're disregarding the "advanced" kids. Need more than just having more educators/coaches in the room to help out with these kids. These are problems in any school but ones I feel like the school should have addressed with all it's resources

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