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Benchmark Education reviews

2.5

27% would recommend to a friend

(190 total reviews)

Tom Reycraft

38% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Benchmark Education has an employee rating of 2.5 out of 5 stars, based on 190 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Benchmark Education employee rating is 33% below average for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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190 reviews
1.0
Dec 9, 2014

Hostile Work Environment

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Free lunch every Wednesday and great colleagues.

Cons

Executive management is hostile and believe it's acceptable to scream, use profanity and belittle their hard-working employees.

1.0
Oct 25, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As a small company, there are opportunities to try out a number of roles. However, every role leads to the same frustration and degradation in the end. And the degradation is LOUD and public.

Cons

You know those awkward family gatherings where one family member is completely off the walls and everyone has to politely sip their wine and tiptoe around the elephant in the room? Well, this place is pretty much that dysfunctional and uncomfortable at all times. There is screaming, throwing, ripping, and earthquake grade slamming and shaking. Trying to get actual work done is like being trapped in the Blair Witch Project when they repeatedly wander in circles in the woods and keep finding themselves back in the same spot time and time again and then cry. Guidelines change constantly to the point where you don't even know what you are trying to do anymore and you have to start over and over. And you will probably cry. But, hey, there is wine. Which is necessary, because boundaries here are never clear. Yes, nice food is occasionally catered for employees and many office social events are given. However, as these things creep into the work environment, the work environment eventually begins to creep into personal life. It is as if the next natural step would be to bring your bed into this place. There are no set work hours and employees do come in on weekends. Personal jabs are made as well as many other comments that cross the race, sex, gender, you-name-it propriety line.

1.0
Oct 15, 2014

Horrible

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There are no benefits to working here, unless you are a glutton for punishment.

Cons

Constant screaming, complete dysfunction on every possible level. There is no order to things, and therefore everything gets stalled all the time. Somehow the product sells, and the owners have several homes, fancy clothes, and the rich and famous lifestyle to show for it. The worker bees reap no benefits. In fact, employees do themselves more harm than good by working at BEC; their salary is lower than average (and publishing pays low to start), plus they get no real world publishing experience since this "company" is a big joke.

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