Frustrating but overall invaluable - Anonymous employee City Year Employee Review

3.0
May 26, 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Networking Leadership opportunities Challenging Thinking Great group of intelligent young people Pushes your limits and forces you to grow and learn

Cons

The lack of information given to incoming corpsmembers was very frustrating and the support system for the health and well being, both mental and physical of the corps members was fairly unsastisfactory

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Cons

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4.0
Jun 22, 2026
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Pros

You do very meaningful work and the staff truly care about you and what you are doing.

Cons

School placements can be quite far from where you live, and the days are long (7:30 am - 5 pm). Often is exhausting, but you stay for the kids.

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