Not so great - Anonymous employee WE Employee Review

3.0
Jul 17, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The staff were fantastic super talented people who made it an amazing environment to work in. The work was also very engaging and working with the young people was absolutely inspiring. There was also a lot of opportunity to work in different areas of the company to expand on your skillset.

Cons

It kind of felt like despite being a youth empowerment charity they didn't want their speakers to be too outspoken as it tended to mean they were more open about their want for a better work environment. When faced with this peoples contracts tended to not get renewed which was pretty clear as to why and massively effected how the remaining team felt. Management generally seemed like they were doing their absolute best but maybe needed some extra support and training. Also there wasn't across the board treatment which meant that some staff members were treated better than other. Also while I was there HR was remotely working which just didn't work at all!

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If you are interested in doing real work for youth empowerment and social justice, do not work here. You will be given work that ultimately only serves corporate donors' interests, regardless of what local communities need or what program managers advocate for. You'll find that you need to get in bed with upper management in order to have a future with WE, as well. Sharing a difference of opinion is not valued or tolerated. Rather, you'll find a bunch of cliques and staff who seek out opportunities to flaunt their work for credit. The nonprofit, team-oriented culture of promoting one another's success is just not there. It's sad to see so much money poured into an organization that is not committed to or grounded in social justice, but that so easily fools the public into believing it is. This is precisely why corporate donors love WE - they can portray an image of goodness through sponsorships without having to reconcile the ways in which they are creating social injustices within their respective companies. Please stay away from WE if you don't have the stomach for worshiping the founding brothers who insist on remaining a strong focus of WE messaging despite their clear lack of understanding of what true social justice entails. They'll do whatever it takes to keep WE running, even if it means laying off employees left and right who bring a different perspective, or in order to preserve a meaningless program (marketing ploys, lavish feel-good events) to satisfy corporate donor contracts.

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