TNTP reviews

Several reviews here on glassdoor talk about management at TNTP being hit or miss. I think that's exactly right. If you are considering a job with TNTP, absolutely ask about your manager and activate your network to learn more about this individual. I got a chance to work with a number of outstanding people at TNTP, and heard about other peoples' managers making them more effective. That was not my experience. I like to think I am generally pretty amiable and I am used to hard core urgency in other intense ed-reform organizations... and I found my manager so abrasive, condescending, and such a micromanager that it led to a sort of paralysis, and I quit. My manager had been a manager for a couple of years at TNTP when I started - I don't know if micromanagement had led to success with other employees or if this was something she wanted to try out with me. Some of my favorite quotes that she often repeated to me: "the best way to establish authority as a new manager, is to tell people what to do"; "you need to stop saying 'thank you,' it's their job - you're their boss"; and, anytime I completed a menial task, "I think this is SO SMART of you." I found this all to be somewhere between annoying and offensive, so I left.

Management here is hit or miss. Individuals can be prematurely promoted and insufficiently trained for management. This leads to micromanagement, difficult with work/life balance, communication issues, culture problems, etc. Be sure to know who you'll be working with. Also, know that they are in a constant state of restructuring.