Pros
First. There is no shortage of talent at Change.org. Within their ranks are seasoned professionals who have come from big name non-profits and tech companies. All driven by the mission of empowering people to make change everywhere. This is what sold me on the company when I first started. Second. The relationships I have made with folks I worked with at Change.org have been some of the most impactful relationships I have ever made in a workplace. Not only that, I learned a lot and will be forever grateful to those with whom I had the privilege of working closely with. Third. No matter what you read in the Cons section, I still believe this company can be great again. It's just going to require a lot of work and self-reflection of the team.
Cons
First. The CEO, Ben Rattray. Not at all involved with employees these days. Too busy for staff, hides in his cave of an office all day only to emerge for lunch and occasional meetings. Second. Leadership is incredibly irresponsible. Here are a few examples of how irresponsible they are: - Flew the entire company to New York for a company offsite. Majority of the company is based on the west coast in N. America (Victoria, B.C. and San Francisco). The flights were booked last minute and then buses were used to shuttle people. Not a cheap endeavor. And for a B-Corp? Really?! Months later, the company laid off the business development team claiming the need to "pivot" the business model. We were "struggling" with our revenue model. But it wasn't "business ending". They assured us there would be no further lay-offs and to "not worry". Literally a month or so later, they laid off ~30% of the product development team claiming they were unable to surface from the defecate they thought they could recover from. If a month difference can decide the fate of a majority of your company; how short-sighted can you be? - The team since has been struggling with morale and the efforts by leadership have felt forced and sometimes socially manipulative. A majority of the staff has resorted to therapy sessions with one another which often results to self-deprecation or bashing of leadership because we've been gaslit so many times. - On the topic of being gaslit. The gas-lighting at this company, is real. This team claims to be transparent, open to feedback, and emphasizes the core value of "Love and Understand"...but most employee concerns result in leadership gas-lighting the individual or team. I had only heard about this prior to understanding how bad things were here until I too experienced it in a meeting. It typically starts with "I hear what you're saying, let's unpack this....Now here's what *you* can do to be better.". Because the problems always lead back to you and they are *really* good at turning the tables back towards the individual or team. That's how gas-lighting works, right? Third. Puts inexperienced people into VP level positions. Fourth......this one REALLY irks me and was the primary motivation to write this review in the first place. I've heard rumors of leadership writing false Glassdoor reviews to bolster the ratings and even asking employees to do the same. From different people in unrelated conversations. Leadership doesn't think we talk about it, but we do.. It's gross. I mean, who writes "Best place to work!" in their headline? If you're going to fake it, at least be original.