Pros
Mission "could" be very powerful - AARP Foundation targets a rapidly growing demographic and fills a huge hole in helping low-income seniors. Some colleagues were pretty sharp and the office location (Chinatown) was good.
Cons
- Upper management was completely and deliberately insulated from taking feedback or even interacting with anyone. They're also completely clueless on how to run an organization, vet ideas or even basic business concepts - Mission is constantly thrown around, but few people actually care about serving seniors -- AARP is just a massive money-making scheme to take money from seniors and waste it on expensive gatherings, office space, and overpaid (incompetent) senior managers - Many of the main decision makers had very questionable ethics and regularly lied about both big and small things to all layers of the organization - There is no movement at all - laterally or vertically - for anyone (you can't rotate to other positions -- politics are toxic internally) - Facetime matters more than actually doing anything - Horrific politics from all levels -- the senior managers that last are the ones that play the game (keep head down, throw others under the bus, and agree to asinine ideas from clueless leaders)