Benchmark Education reviews

One of the owners of this company yells and screams at staff daily—really and truly. And certain other top managers are not a lot better. The whole place feels like a war zone on the worst of days. There is high turnover, of course. Also, there are bizarre rules enforced, such as asking full-time employees to sign out whenever they leave the office, not being allowed to hang your coat on your chair at your desk, and half the staff not having phones at their workstations. No eating at your desk allowed unless it's a "snack" (vs. a meal). Worst of all, the products are severely rushed, and quality suffers terribly as a result. If you care about doing a good job and being treated with respect, this is the wrong place to work.

Top management at Benchmark Education yells at people all day abusively. If you think this is an exaggeration, go to the "interview questions" on this site and see that most of them are about "how do you handle a streessful enviromnet? how do you handle pressure?, and how do you handle yelling?" I guess the company thinks this motivates people but to a large extent it motivates them to leave. Turnover is very high. Especially the people that report to top management. Thee is a lot of favoritism going on and if you are not in one of these categories your career won't go very far. Top management has its hands in every piece of the business too. You won't feel like you can make a decision that you should be able to make. Top manageent might change it at the last minute. Also they grew the business too fast which often made it tough to figure out who was responsible for what.