Pros
You don't need experience to work at Grid Good Benefits Laxed schedule
Cons
If you are a seasoned professional with high integrity and are very competent do not work for Grid. There is retaliation culture when presenting issues and or improvements or just ideas. Leadership is very incompetent and don't provide essential training to its staff. Their shortsightedness in vision and leadership takes them down the rabbit hole. For example GRID is a relatively new organization and their offices are also new, they took these new offices and made them affiliates and these offices don't have independent funding to sustain them nor did they have an executed plan for them as a result a few offices were closed. The only philosophy behind this thinking was to create an organization that mirrors Habitat for Humanity, that is not a plan. While a culture of inclusion and progressiveness is being promoted to the outside world, it is only for show and for their Board, and funders it is far from that (seeing people of color is not inclusion). Not one person from the communities they serve is on their Board. Not one Executive Director has been African American nor do they seek them out. They only hired one African American Director that is underpaid to her counterparts with no control of anything, only because they were on the verge of being sued. I've seen Managers with NO experience be hired over people of color that have had to train these so called Managers. There was also a high level Management staff who was a former car salesman had less experience than the person they replaced and they hired this person with a straight face even though they had to also hire consultants to mask his incompetence. Staff have had a lot of problems with management and in many instances staged sit-ins in order to fire and speak out about their Manager(s). The founders do not have a plan to resolve conflict when they often times are the main agitator or aggressor. Their employee surveys which are recent are just ridiculous since they don't review or address common issues. Management is horrendous. They have nonsense meetings where nothing is accomplished because it gives managers the sense that they are actually doing their job. Management is unprofessional! I've never seen so many higher ups that take so much vacation while expecting others to work over time. They have the tendency to discuss personnel matters around specific individuals in a group management meeting with non-HR staff present, this should not even happen. This pits staff against staff and doesn't expose or address real issues not to mention in a confidential manner. The founders and their menoun managers seek people that are butt kissers or just likable rather than people that can actually perform their duties. There is an undertone of racism and favoritism. Their inclusion sounds hip based on where they are located but again they aren't a progressive organization. There were people of color working in their construction team in Oakland but weren't hired as a construction Manager yet a white person from other regions (SF, Pleasanton, or Berkeley) were hired who had to be trained by that same team (these so called managers were either fired or left). Management simply increases their salaries while not paying lower level staff. The organization can not take criticism and when you do be prepared for retaliation. Do you know how many people have stolen from Grid and when this type of thing got brought to their attention, retaliation. Also its comical that their HR staff is attempting to act as though they are addressing the published complaints but they aren't going to do a thing, they certainly won't bring these complaints to their Board or founders. They had a very unprofessional HR person who attempted to hit a pregnant woman and when this was brought to their attention nothing happened. Then they put existing Directors up to writing counterclaims on sites like this about how much they enjoy their job. Grid's turnover rate is VERY HIGH (I believe it is between 40-60%) that should tell you something and they don't have a retention plan either.
