New York Botanical Garden reviews

If you love plants, there is plenty to learn and see.

Upper management is interested in personal advancement, accolades and impressing the CEO and Board. Your professional growth, health, team needs, etc. are a very distant second, if a consideration at all. My boss did nothing and contributed nothing of any real substance, but sure reaped the rewards of our toil. Upper management (VP level) is cutthroat and uninspiring.

There were few benefits or perks. I loved being around the plants. That’s it. No employer matching, no raises, no real training or opportunities for career advancement.

Not much. Beware.

NYBG is the USSR- projecting power while crumbling from the inside. Ask why Vice Presidents (so many Vice Presidents) stay while the majority of directors, managers and most staff (the folks doing the actual work) are inexperienced and new. The organization is a relentless, soul-sucking, morale killer.

I over prepared for my conversations and presentations. What I wish I’d done is have candid conversations with current and former employees.

Negotiate a high starting salary, because it will not increase. You will not gain any benefits. The joke in our household is the excitement we all felt the year we all received a free cookie from the cafe during the holidays. Fittingly, it was stale!

They’ve invested heavily in the DEI initiative, ostensibly to make misery accessible to all.

I loved my team and the plants. We performed at a high level for each other- not for our department head or the organization. We motivated ourselves.

Beautiful plants

Awful senior managers, no support, no advancement

We were given a voucher for a free cookie from the one Christmas. 😐