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Child Mind Institute

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Great coworkers, terrible management - Anonymous employee Child Mind Institute Employee Review

2.0
May 12, 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are a lot of opportunities to grow your responsibilities and learn new skills on the job. The work is often challenging and interesting. Coworkers are friendly, smart, and hardworking. There is a lot of camaraderie and the sense that you're all in it together.

Cons

Two major cons: it's effectively not a nonprofit, and exec staff politics/policies are unbearable. As another reviewer said, CMI is an elitist company that caters to Page 6-ers and their .001% children. Despite claims to the contrary, CMI does not really help the children struggling with mental health problems who need it most - it's for the rich, by the rich. In addition, the politics between departments and among exec staff are staggering and frustrating. A lot of work is either redundant or completely skipped and then cobbled together at the last minute because of poor communication. This often leads to truly unnecessary 60-70 hour workweeks (and of course, far below market pay for those long hours). It's also at least partially why the average duration of employment on the foundation side is well under a year. And most frustratingly, exec staff micromanages and is always looking to place blame on underlings, even if they don't know their names. The President in particular is known to be intensely unpleasant to work with.

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I learned a lot and the leadership was great!

Cons

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1.0
Jul 2, 2026
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Pros

Some very smart minds working here

Cons

- Extremely toxic work culture - Senior Leadership have no strategy. They chase good PR to the detriment of the health of their teams. - All power stems from the top. It changes like the wind and is not anchored in the mission or evidence. If you are not kowtowing to the leader, you are let go and without any respect to what you have contributed. This can be seen in the C-suite changing constantly over the past year. - Resource allocation prioritizes senior leadership salaries, which negatively impacts delivery of programs and services. This also illustrates to anybody wanting to invest or fund that it is not a good place for ROI. - Extremely high turnover is a reflection of toxic HR and senior leadership.

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