EAB reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(318 total reviews)
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David L. Felsenthal

80% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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2.0
Aug 3, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

For the most part they promote healthy work/life balance. You get 10 hours a month to dedicate to health/fitness. Good PTO and healthcare.

Cons

High turn over due to poor/unqualified managers, low pay, and slim opportunities for career advancement (unless you know the right people). The CEO and other top execs operate in a bubble and are out of touch with the needs of their employees, they only care about the bottom line. The only one who seems to understand and care about the employees is the President of Enrollment Services. EAB is under a false impression that they are this great company (if it's so great why are people fleeing left and right daily?), but once you get here... it's all a facade. There are toxic and manipulative work environments, unqualified managers, unfair performance reviews, slim career growth opportunities, etc. The pay is not competitive compared to similar companies, and opportunities for career growth are few and far between. Performance reviews are rigged so that the majority of employees can't qualify for a decent merit increase. I guess there is this idea that not everyone can be "exceeding expectations" even if they are (that would be too expensive for the company right?). You could be a perfect employee with an outstanding performance review but you'll still only get the bare minimum of an increase-- don't worry though the top execs are still getting a nice, big paycheck! There is also no streamlined or standard process for being promoted.

3.0
Jul 16, 2018

AMA

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Culture and work life balance.

Cons

Salary is well below what other companies pay

3.0
Jun 26, 2018

Insanity is doing the same thing....

Recommend
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Pros

- EAB is full of smart people doing good work to improve education. - The research, technology, and service portfolio is some of the best serving the education industry. - If you come in at a low level, there are many paths to promotion. - Salary potential as you get beyond entry level improves dramatically. - If you're in a member facing role, you get to build strong relationships with educators and administrators across the country

Cons

- Executive level is full of entrenched (mostly healthcare) relics from the Advisory Board. - Said executives appear more interested in hiring their friends from health care for management roles than making efforts to bolster our education/edtech credentials - There is no room for new ideas/innovative thinking. If you can live within the EAB/ old Advisory Board culture, great. Don't expect things to ever be different. - There are pockets of people pushing diversity/inclusion efforts, but it is not reflected in leadership behavior (rewarding team members by taking them to their exclusive, mostly-white DC clubs. No intentional engagement by leadership in affinity groups or diversity/inclusion activities beyond speeches).

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