Apollo Education Group reviews

The benefits and downsides vary greatly depending upon your direct management. As a developer, your workload will differ depending upon the project/department to which you are assigned. Some teams have a relatively light workload, giving them ample time to explore professional growth opportunities within the organization. My personal experience was the expectation to work 10+ hour days on a regular basis, struggling to meet tight deadlines. Because of the tight schedules most of the time I felt like a "code monkey", simply putting together the quickest solution - not necessarily the best solution. Despite the access to new technology, development techniques employed at Apollo seemed to be years behind current standards. Lack of standards and defined best practices was shocking. Compensation (although consistent with market rates) seems lacking in light of the demands placed upon employees. If one were to calculate an hourly rate using the actual hours spent working, it would actually be far less than market value. I can honestly say working at Apollo has been the most stressful job I have had in my entire career.

Horrible management and questionable ethics. Company is full of nepotism and favoritism. Getting ahead is not about doing a good job but about being in the "in crowd". Local campuses are run by long-time employees with no outside experience at anything but selling education. Its a shame. It wasn't long ago that employees were proud of their jobs at Apollo.