City Year Los Angeles - Anonymous employee City Year Employee Review

3.0
25 Jun 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great experience for a year - Part of AmeriCorps - Good inside look in non-profit organization - Working with kids - Staff members generally nice

Cons

- No communications within organization - Disorganized - Some staff members are rude and incompetent - Experience highly dependent on which team you got put in - Some Corps Members are definitely not qualified

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5.0
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Pros

Community, connection, support, and its a great place for recent graduates to go until they figure the next step.

Cons

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4.0
22 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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