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I worked for Kids in the Game, and I can confidently say this is NOT a company that fosters growth, especially for people of color. The supposed "inclusive" atmosphere they claim is far from reality. In my experience, opportunities for advancement were few and far between for POC. Instead of empowering their diverse staff, they allowed an undercurrent of favoritism and bias to dictate who moves up, which overwhelmingly benefits white employees.

There's a lot of underlying nonsense that goes on behind the scenes at Kids in the Game. Management is either blissfully ignorant or actively turning a blind eye to issues that should have been addressed long ago. Microaggressions were common, and any attempt to bring up concerns about how POC are treated is met with gaslighting or outright dismissal.

If you're a person of color looking for a place where your voice is valued, and where you can actually grow in your career, look elsewhere. Kids in the Game is not it. The toxic environment and lack of real support for POC make it an incredibly frustrating and disappointing place to work.


After having worked with KING for 2 years, my ideas about the environment and work culture solidified. These characteristics led me to look for work elsewhere; the favoritism form superiors toward team members was earned through likability and not through work. The room for growth they had promised initially was not there when inquired about and only granted depending on that same favoritism. 
I believe this company targets young adults, which makes sense for the level of physical activity required. However, these young adults are sold the idea that this is a good place to start their career ladder and then are held back at the first step on that ladder as long as the company is benefiting.
Also, during the summer programs the pay is less than 10$/hr for team leaders which is well below the city’s minimum wage, yet team members are expected to give their 110% for 40+ hours a week. 

Unfairness all over the place. 
Their goal is not the work environment, everyone is replaceable here. 
THEIR ONLY GOAL IS KEEPING PARENTS HAPPY AND PROFITS COMING!!

I feel as if the upper management was fair and this company has great funding and great programs! CEO was supper nice. 

However, the work environment was extremely poor. Supervising Staff members consistently gossiped about coaches. The Assistant directors Made highly inappropriate jokes. Some even went as far as making jokes about kids with mental disabilities and in front of other kids. When the issue was brought up, the person who made the complaint was targeted in shady comments made by the assistant director. 

Directors picked on workers and humiliated them by making wide spread jokes and creating negative narratives. In my personal experience, I received little feed back. The Camp Director was inappropriate and sexist. He refused to directly speak to me and preferred to speak to my male coworkers instead. 

Not only would I not recommend working there, I would be cautious of sending my children there.

I quickly learned that working for KING meant selling our system to schools that already had after-school and enrichment programs in place. King effectively cancelled the teachers security, and inserted the company into the schools to take a cut of the teachers pay, for not much additional work. This led to a lot of tensions between coaches/teachers and King staff. Also, my coworkers tended to be pretty lax about childcare, and I was always stressed at having to pick up the pieces. We are here to take care of children, but there are a lot of lazy employees you have to cover for. There is no job security, I've seen employees being let go for no other reason than the on-site manager decided to spread an inappropriate rumor. I had great hopes for working in the NYC school system, but it's a little awkward with all the bad reviews King receives.

To be honest with you the interview wasn’t dress code professional, myself and two interviewer’s were dressed to impress, this company expect too much from employees when in reality we not license teachers to be writing down lesson plan for the hourly pay rate is very absurd. If kids in the game want experience teachers and then I suggest you hire them not inner experience young adults/ grown adults in there 40’s who applied just to see what would happen. 

I feel excellent to have this opportunity to work with Kids In The Game. My manager and colleagues spent time in explaining the business model, financials, organization structure and revenue model with sufficient details. They also gave regular feedbacks and appreciated my performance. People are friendly, serious about their work and have a growth mindset.

Working at kids in the games was ok for a bout a couple of weeks then people in general decides to switch up on you management favors who they want to favor, and the co workers are extremely young and they are lazy at doing there job. Lack of communication at kids in the games is horrible don’t waste your time working there and the pay is atrocious. 

The people you work with the schools we go into the children and families we impacted is what made working at KiNG so much fun. However politics and being worried about the bottom line made things very difficult. Also so of the sporting events not ran by us that we weee connected weren’t always healthy environments for personal growth and development. 

Kids in the game is truly one of the best places to work. I worked in both the main office and on the field. I learned so much professionally, while being able to see what was happening on the field. I could not recommend this company enough. There is so much room for growth and everything they do is for the kids. 

The small size of the gym and cafeteria was a real issue for the counselors and campers at times. Lunch periods were very crowded at times due to not having enough space.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Tutor 2 salaries reported	$24.00 per hour
Camp director 11 salaries reported	$1,100 per week
Camp counselor 14 salaries reported	$1,214 per week
Education coach 1 salary reported	$31.50 per hour
Division leader 3 salaries reported	$725 per week

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