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Art of Problem Solving

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Art of Problem Solving reviews

3.8

62% would recommend to a friend

(164 total reviews)

Richard Ruszcyk

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67% positive business outlook

Art of Problem Solving has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 164 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Art of Problem Solving employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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164 reviews
2.0
Mar 12, 2020

Best at Math Curriculum, Poor at Everything Else

Anonymous employee
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Pros

AoPS math curriculum is literally the best and most rigorous I have ever seen. It was a joy to teach. Most of the students—a far higher proportion than in any regular school—are highly motivated and interested in math for its own sake. The lessons being planned ahead of time, including the homework sets, is great, and the curriculum team does a wonderful job.

Cons

It sort of feels like the math curriculum team and math classes must be meticulously walled off from everything else going on at the company, because everything else it does is immensely frustrating. The other reviewer on here who pointed out that almost no one in the top echelons of the company has any real corporate experience was dang right. Language Arts is a joke, basically a scam to make money. And everything related to HR, hiring, training, retention, etc., are very poorly handled at best. Notice how the good reviews are all from part-time employees, and the bad ones from full-timers? That's not a coincidence. For someone who is just looking to make a few bucks teaching a fun math class, or as a grader, yes, working at AoPS is fine. But it's an awful place to try to make your career. Particularly if you are full-time but work remotely, i.e. anywhere but San Diego itself, no one will ever listen to you. The company's poor organization means that major issues will go unaddressed, and important questions will not be answered. At the same time, major sudden changes will be announced without warning nor input.

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Art of Problem Solving Response
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Thank you for your kind words about our curriculum and students. Your review comes at a difficult time, as we are working around the clock to transition our AoPS Academy in-person classes online and support our students' continued learning in the wake of coronavirus-related school closures. However, over the last year we have put special emphases on improving communications between our headquarters team in San Diego and AoPS Academy directors across the country and providing our directors with more support and training. We have also recently invested more resources in building out our HR department and improving our language arts curriculum. Once the current coronavirus crisis has passed, we will continue all of this work.
2.0
May 28, 2024

Disappointing and serious issues with pay

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Pros

Intelligent, hard-working colleagues who really care about creating a positive experience for students.

Cons

The Academy used to be a great place to teach, and teachers felt appreciated. But the company has failed to fairly and properly address a huge problem with their pay structure. The base payrate for instructors has remained the same year after year after year. The company seems to believe that if there are still teachers willing to work for them, then pay increases are unnecessary, even as they see more and more of their staff leaving. To make matters worse, the company keeps raising student tuition year after year because of "rising costs." Just this year, my campus is raising tuition by a whopping 16.5% from $725 for 12 weeks to $845. That's an extra $360 per student per year with almost two thousand students at the campus. I'm not sure where this money is going, but it's not to instructors who are doing the actual teaching. It is a real shame. It seems the underpaying is also affecting full-time staff as directors keep fleeing the campus, and the advertised pay for new directors is the same it has been for many years, and lower than some other campuses that charge a fraction in tuition. The company has a lot of promise and talented people, but the greed and mismanagement have proven to be too much for me, and there are just better opportunities elsewhere.

1.0
Jul 14, 2023

Does not care about employees

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Not really any pros to the company

Cons

They do not care about their employees no matter how much they say they do

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