NYC Department of Education Employee Reviews
Out of 120 NYC Department of Education employee reviews, 61% were positive. The remaining 39% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping NYC Department of Education improve their work culture. The Admin team, with 76% positive reviews, reports the best experience at NYC Department of Education compared to all other departments at the company. The Operations team offered the most constructive feedback, with 60% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
understanding, compassionate, relatable, culturally responsive
Their knowledge and the manner in which they interact with employees
They Are always there to help
How they work together to get the job done
Review from Admin Dept
They are team players and willing to help in any situation.
Review from Admin Dept
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Understanding how much stress is involved but they are clueless.
Treating people fairly not being bias.
This team revolves their work around identity politics. Very little guidance or support for schools - just a list of demands. Although the bureaucracy has ballooned small school teams still do all the work with increasing demands. They are, at best, mediocre consultants and political hacks.
Review from Admin Dept
They all attend pointless meetings but none of the real work is addressed. All employees are drowning in work and we have little guidance. I work in Office of Legal Services.
They need to communicate with staff more effectively
Review from Operations Dept
What is the best part about your compensation package?
The retirements pay is amazing
Health care and pension are good. The TDA with a fixed 7% is amazing.
Review from Admin Dept
Decent health benefits that are necessary
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The many benefits I receive and the hours I work.
I like the paid vacations
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
I have more education and knowledge than the people I work with. Realize I have more experience than the people you make me work with
equal and fair work environment.
Be paid better and treated better
Review from Operations Dept
For the responsibilities that I have a am very low paid. Very busy work load with very little compensation.
What are some of the best things about your team?
They work extremely hard as a group
Some schools appreciate substitute teachers. Majority of them take advantage of substitute teachers. Some schools like to take away planning period and not pay us. Or switch and bait an assignment that was not on sub central. Schools shouldn't have the right to switch us whenever they feel like it.
I really can't answer this
The friendliness, enthusiasm and knowledge of issues
They work together as a team, not as individuals
Review from Admin Dept
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
They need to be more organized and aware they are just helping. They are not in charge.
They need to hire people based on competency and skills
Review from Admin Dept
More collegiality and choice rather than listening to directives and speeches
Review from Admin Dept
I think that they need to communicate better
We need more training and leeway to handle our cases.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
The students make the position worthwhile
Review from Admin Dept
The friendliness, people who work and even the food brought in
I think that learning is the most positive environment
How they vertically be is able to get along with each other
Review from Admin Dept
Everyone brings a different technique where we can learn from each other to improve our progress.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
They need to be more humanistic
Being less bias and less top down management.
better compensation and treatment of workers
Review from Operations Dept
The company need to encourage positive behaviors and understand the staff better.
parents need to be accountable
Review from Admin Dept
What did you like most about the interview process?
I felt comfortable; fair questions were asked
The questions asked, being given a chance and the friendliness
I like that I felt very comfortable
They were very interested in wanting to know why teaching was my passion.
Review from Admin Dept
Normal as any other would be
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Hire competent people for once.
Everything is based on your ethnicity or cultural background. Many discriminatory hiring practices towards whites.
Review from Admin Dept
more in depth background checks
Review from Operations Dept
vet the teachers and let them know routines for success
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What makes you most happy at work?
The students are the best thing in the DOE.
Review from Admin Dept
End of the work day.
The hours, pay, benefits and people I work with
Being able to work with the children and for them
Review from Admin Dept
to see the smiles on my student's faces when they walk into the building.
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Overarching expectations and unrealistic goals.
There are barely any true consequences for the students actions
there is too much workload
Kids can be hard to deal with as well
Review from Admin Dept
The work load is too intense. There are just too much work for one person to handle. It can be improved with more help and work gets distributed more evenly.
What do you like best about your company?
They’re trying to make a better cultur
Ability to develop youth.
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
More transparency and fairness to employees.
People being more grateful for employees who put in the time