Pros
1. Great Mission "Prep for Prep develops leaders through access to superior education and life-changing opportunities. Since 1978, Prep has identified New York City’s most promising students of color and prepared them for placement at independent schools in the city and boarding schools throughout the Northeast. Once placed, Prep offers support and opportunities to ensure the academic accomplishment and personal growth of each one of our students." 2. Great students! 3. Company credit card for professional employees
Cons
1. Pay is not competitive no matter what anyone says. Prep will continue to lowball hard-working staff. Only executive staff like their pay. When you get offered 6 figures it's hard to say no to that. 2. Long work hours without any sort of compensation. 3. No written plans for contracts. During my supervisor's paternity leave, I was told, by the second in charge "While it may be customary in other employment relationships to draw up such agreements, that is not how Prep has operated to date and is not something that will change in the near future." The message is always that Prep will take care of you and enslave you but never actually make a formal agreement. For an organization that is headed towards being corporate, they might want understand that corporate means written contracts. 4. Executive level management does not have the basic skills to do their jobs. 5. Executive level management is unsupervised. The CEO has focused on raising money and has turned over the internal ongoings to someone who has no interpersonal skills. Executives will make up their own rules and policies that are directly in opposition to what is written in the handbook. 6. Human Resources is there to protect Executive Staff. Employees who speak up are either fired or restructured out. There is an attempt to silence smart, educated people who work at the organization. 7. Not everyone is there for the students. I was underpaid and would have stayed until I retired. Unfortunately the Executive Level Staff at my department made in unbearable for me to continue. People do not do right by the students and their families and I had to make the decision to leave. 8. High Turnover. 9. Executive staff and CEO are bullies.
