Bad experience at a nonprofit. For all the "you're doing amazing work!" talk and praise that was heaped on us, there was a lot of fluff and cruft behind the scenes. Almost everything was geared towards marketing how we were changing the sector, when almost none of the projects mattered or would ever be used. And the maniacal focus on getting more money donated when summer time came around.
Joined because I believed in the mission and thought writing code could really help in the initial vision. Then learned the dirty secret that most of it was marketing how great we were.
Also leaving another "we are doing amazing work!" job because they can't make the office be an amazing place for the staff. A non-profit in the humanitarian space. Ironical.
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Bad experience at a nonprofit. For all the "you're doing amazing work!" talk and praise that was heaped on us, there was a lot of fluff and cruft behind the scenes. Almost everything was geared towards marketing how we were changing the sector, when almost none of the projects mattered or would ever be used. And the maniacal focus on getting more money donated when summer time came around.
Joined because I believed in the mission and thought writing code could really help in the initial vision. Then learned the dirty secret that most of it was marketing how great we were.
Also leaving another "we are doing amazing work!" job because they can't make the office be an amazing place for the staff. A non-profit in the humanitarian space. Ironical.