Teach First Programmer Manager reviews

5.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(4 total reviews)

100% positive business outlook

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5.0
Apr 3, 2025

Great flexible working and culture

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Pros

- Flexible working is really valued - Pretty much everyone is great at their job and lovely to work with - Important, mission-driven work

Cons

- Lack of investment in tools / systems hamper day-day work

4.0
Mar 6, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent work flexibility. For the third sector, the benefits/ policies are very forward thinking and people centric. Inspiring, fast paced organisation. CEO is an incredible leader - someone who inspires and to really aspire to.

Cons

Lack of development/ progress opportunities. CEO is incredibly inspiring, but there’s a leadership vacuum elsewhere across senior leadership. Lack of diversity, especially in leadership (although there is a lot of work being done in this area)

3.0
Mar 3, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Work/life balance, WFH, focus on well-being

Cons

Negative attitude to pregnancy causing low performance rating

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Teach First Response
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Thank you for taking the time to give us a review. We’ve not used appraisals at Teach First for about 18 months now and have moved to a continuous feedback model for everyone. We did this to standardise our annual review salary review process, removing discretion, so all employees deemed to be ‘on track’ receive a uniform increase. If someone has been on family leave for the duration of a year they are considered to be ‘on track’ by default. So I hope if you were to return to Teach First you’d see some real changes since your time with us. We pride ourselves in our support for working parents. At any time we usually have about 7-8% of our employees on family leave. So it’s something that’s imperative we get right. You can read all of our policies about family leave on our website – teachfirst.org.uk/working-teach-first. As we want to be really transparent about what’s available to you at such a pivotal life moment. Our support for Working Parents has really grown over the past few years and this year we were excited to be awarded best for ‘Family Support’ by Working Mums. As well as all the work we’re doing alongside our Working Families Affinity Group.
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