Great as a Corps Members, Not so much as Staff. - Anonymous employee American Conservation Experience Employee Review

Corps Member stipend is low. Upper management does not communicate well with lower management and corps members. Lots of miss-communication or non at all. There are upper management that are very disconnected from the members. Many members never know or met the majority of the staff. If you work in the office you will be lucky to have time off. They claim it is "flexible" which equates to odd hours, weekends, and multiple weeks without two days off in a row. Lots of big promises to corps members about professional development that never happen. Again big disconnect - some corps members get more attention than others while some long-time members never get advanced trainings even though they've been there a year or so. Mentality of "fighting fires" instead of preventing them. Mostly talk and little action. Expected to do multiple people's jobs at little pay. Understaffed with high turn over rate. Interview process can take weeks or months. When people leave and give notice management doesn't start hiring until they already left.