Pros
- Employees are high-performing, ambitious, and motivated. - Great mission and strategy for promoting health education among high school students. - Opportunity to have a lot of responsibility and manage people very early in one's career (e.g., just out of college).
Cons
- Poor work/life balance: 80-100 hour work weeks were considered normal and acceptable. - Not enough training for new employees (e.g., expected to lead meetings with PHE volunteers on day 2). - Understaffed: constantly scrambling to get everything done, despite working 16-hour days. - Upper management set unrealistically high standards that were out of touch with how the program actually works in the field. - Didn't invest in technologies or services that would enable employees to be more effective and efficient at their jobs (e.g., having to drive two hours to drop something off that could be mailed instead; inefficient, internal software that hadn't been updated in 10 years; near-constant IT problems). Note: This review is most likely out of date -- I imagine (hope!) that PHE has addressed these issues since I was employed there.