Pros
I can say without reservation I have had the opportunity to work with some really smart people who are passionate about the work, the communities that our members serve and the state of our public education system. I have found my colleagues to be generally thoughtful about the work as well. Working remotely is great and flexible schedules.
Kontras
The biggest con is the inequity of opportunity within the organization. It is a bit of a paradox to be committed to equitable outcomes for students while seeing gross inequity within the organization. What makes it a slap in the face is that we have an internal team dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion work who do a wonderful job giving us a common language in understanding of these principles but seem to have little impact in addressing the biases of the leadership. Promotions are given on a whim, staff friends are hired into newly created roles and people who don't "drink the kool aid" are fired or forced to work in such a toxic work environment that they leave. Many more leave because they just get fed up with a workplace that so blatantly advantages some while intentionally underutilizing others. Since I've been here (2 years now) many really talented and smart people have left mediocre roles here to assume better roles and compensation at more storied organization. There seems to be a real issue with retaining strong talent and an even bigger issue with allowing a handful of brats to run amock in the organization.