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Academy Mortgage

Acquired by Guild Mortgage

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Academy Mortgage reviews

3.7

62% would recommend to a friend

(760 total reviews)
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James Mac Pherson

83% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Academy Mortgage has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 760 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Academy Mortgage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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760 reviews
1.0
Jan 1, 2016

Avoid

Anonymous employee
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Pros

If you are one of the select ones you will attend award trips whether you qualify for them or not. Some individuals have good intentions and desire to do the right thing. Unfortunately, that is not in the Senior Leadership of the company. It's all a facade.

Cons

Women should avoid working at Academy. Promotions are first chosen if you have the right religious affiliations as themselves and secondly if you are male. Additional promotion opportunities are nepotism based and since they are in SLC there is a lot of family working within the corporate structure. Due to lack of leadership they have vacillated on choosing a LOS for over 5 years. Let's see if this year the follow through.

1.0
Dec 7, 2022

Inspiring Hope?

Recommend
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Pros

department managers are supportive and helpful.

Cons

Upper management held a huge donation campaign in which their employees helped coordinate and purchase gifts. The campaign ended today and Academy just laid off an entire department without notice and cut employees hours with less than a week notice! Completely heartless in gutting their own employees without any notice or empathy. The employees made substantial sacrifices to ensure strangers have an enjoyable Holiday. Academy’s idea of Inspiring hope is a publicity stunt to improve their image at the expense of their own employees. Shame on them!

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Academy Mortgage Response
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Thank you for leaving a review. Making the decision to part ways with our team members is never easy, and we appreciate you sharing about your experience. We hope to learn from your insight to continue serving our people.
2.0
Jun 11, 2023

You'll get laid off

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nice big office with a kitchen on every floor, free soda, a gym for employees. Decent pay

Cons

Be careful taking a job with Academy. They like to hire, hire, hire when it gets busy. And then they do big layoffs VERY regularly. At some point, you will more than likely get laid off. Even if you've worked there for over a decade. They will lay you off. And while all this is happening, the executive team remians the same. And they will spend literally a million dollars to take their top producers on exotic trips around the world, and spend tons of money on humanitarian trips and donations to struggling countries. And while these donations and humanatarian trips seem nice, they are not taking care of employees who have been loyal.

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