Pros
- Wonderful mission. Everyone stays because we believe in the work we are doing. - Wonderful people who are a joy to work with and just good people. - Beautiful building and great location. - You get to meet some fascinating people and do some great networking. - You work on the Carter's mission and legacy which is cool. The Carter name opens ups a lot of doors too. - The CEO on here needs to be changed. New management as of 2020 and the new CEO is wonderful adn personable and is making change. There is just a lot of change that needs to happen.
Cons
- Salary is straight up awful. Atlanta is an expensive city and our salaries don't reflect the increase in living costs here or reflect inflation. We get good benefits which is used as an excuse to pay us lower salaries but that isn't right and it shouldn't work that way. The people at the Center have paid good money for good educations, are selected out of hundreds of applications, are experts in their field, and deserve to be paid accordingly. We shouldn't be struggling to survive, living pay check to pay check. We also shouldn't be having to look for side hustles because we need extra money when we already work 40+ hours a week. This isn't ok and it makes us look bad as a human rights organization when your employees aren't properly compensated for their work. - There are no pathwyas to promotion. If you want to get promoted, you have to wait till a job position opens up and then paply for it and interiview for it and fight for it. There is no upward mobility. - Junior staff aren't very valued for their ideas and insights. We're used to do grunt work and treated like we're easily replaceable because a hundred other people want are jobs when we should be treated like we beat out a hundred other people for our job so we must be something special. - Office politics can be toxic and programs need to better collaborate with each other and not compete to be the favorite. The programs staff are very hard working but don't get a lot of support from the other teams. Not sure if this is because they are understaffed or if the system needs to be restructured. - There is not a lot of diversity. Black colleagues leave because they don't feel well represented or respected. There is no diversity with higher management. We just hired a bunch of new directors and they were all white women. Their had to have been some people of color who applied.