The Y (YMCA) reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(21,964 total reviews)

Suzanne McCormick

77% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

The Y (YMCA) has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 21,964 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Y (YMCA) employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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22K reviews
1.0
Oct 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

-Mission of the Organization -Caliber of the membership

Cons

-Very toxic work environment -No work life balance -More work than a small staff can handle -Burned out staff -Unresponsive executive team -No processes -Staff works harder and not smarter -Executive staff have no skill set and do things that don't make sense

2.0
May 16, 2021

Chaos in IT

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

YMCA of the USA has good health benefits and a rare pension plan. People really do care about community and about giving back.

Cons

Last year Y-USA hired a new CIO. Unfortunately, he came from a org with a department of over 500 IT workers and painfully reminded everyone that he previously had 2 assistants. At the time of his hire, the total IT staff was 6 and the rest on furlough. As the pandemic progressed the new leader setup goals that were unobtainable by the small team in place that was already over stressed keeping the core operations and applications in place. This stress finally caused the complete failure of IT leadership where now all existing directors of IT tenured their resignation and more junior staff have started to follow in their wake. This IT department is not one to work for under current leadership. Steer clear unless you like projects given to you at 6pm due the next morning, 80 hour work weeks, a manager that keeps a log of of your faults and replays them at a whim and another wise sad environment where there is zero trust.

1.0
Mar 4, 2018

Corrupt & Dysfunctional Organization

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The program participants and being able to work with team members who are passionate about positive change in the community. Having the ability to create, plan, and implement programming.

Cons

There is a lot of work that needs to be done in the organization. This association specifically has a high turnover rate due to the fact that they do not fully equip their staff with the training or support needed to fully do their jobs. There are a lot of staff members working in leadership or senior level director positions that should not be. Leadership is infected with a lot of hypocrisy and people that break the rules and policies of the organization -- that somehow manage to get away with it despite the human resources department being aware. History of taking advantage of lower level staff members, paying people incorrectly and not correcting it within a timely manner and favoritism.

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