Pros
Looks impressive on the resume even to everyone, really dedicated and hardworking colleagues, free tickets to all the School performances + some around N.Y.C, 4 day weeks during Summer, very woke kind of place
Cons
very low pay for anything except VP-level admin or the upper level artistic roles. You have to think of part of your work as a charity contribution. Lots of stakeholders (students, donors/upper admin) have priority above staff. General institutional politics and egos run rampant (especially that of ceo Woetzel & his friends) as well as his office staff. No HR communication. It's a small place and teams are small, so little opp for promotions or any kind of upward mobility. Everyone sort of pitches in on everything. Undefined job description. So much work to do, you could stay late every night and work through every weekends. In fact lots of colleagues do.