Edmentum reviews

3.1

43% would recommend to a friend

(406 total reviews)

Jamie Candee

45% approve of CEO

35% positive business outlook

Edmentum has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 406 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Edmentum employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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406 reviews
2.0
Mar 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

This is a great transition from classroom teaching to “corporate” world. Very laid back and the people who are not executives are some of the most brilliant people I’ve ever had the opportunity to work with. If you’re willing to learn, everyone here is willing to teach you. So if you want to dabble in another area to see what that team feels like... just ask! Very collaborative place.

Cons

Oh gosh, where to start? I always loved how Jamie Candee, the CEO would mention in every meeting how “we have ___% of people in our company with education experience,” yet zero... ZERO of those people are on the executive team. They may have some type of education experience, but walking into a school and seeing your programs being used by students doesn’t count. With the new-er CEO, there has been a complete overhaul of management and there was a re-org of services. This was to be expected since their current way of implementation was lacking to say the least... no structure... no consistency. So, with that being said, the re-org cut about 20 people in services with 5 open positions, thus turning the services teams into The Hunger Games. Since all of management was new, AND THE COMPANY DOESN’T DO PERFORMANCE REVIEWS, people who were hired here in mere weeks made the decisions of who stays and who goes without any real solid reason as to why. There is a theme of “Educator First,” which most people view and use as a joke. For example, when services is told to not reach out to the customer if you’re not the lead on the account... yet the lead consultant is literally onsite for the next 2 weeks in various states. So, I guess this customer just bought X amount of dollars in programs, but won’t be able to get started until next month, even if I’m just sitting here twiddling my thumbs... Educator First! Communication has always been an issue here. No one knows what anyone else is doing. This company is very reactive to events that have already happened that affect everyone in the company. Decisions are made in a vacuum, and everyone else is supposed to roll with the punches.

5.0
Mar 11, 2019

Work worth Doing

Recommend
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Pros

When you do work worth doing and you're surrounded by talented, passionate, mission driven individuals, it makes hard days palatable. The work we do is meaningful, the majority of the people in the organization are incredible both at their work and as humans. If you want to be connected to our mission, the company gives you every opportunity to do so. The evolution of this organization over the past 8 years has been incredible to witness, we've gone through some really hard things like mergers, leadership changes, cultural changes and ownership changes--that's tough stuff and to look at where we are today vs. where we were, our mission has more clarity, our programs are significantly more educator focused, our decisions are more transparent, and our people are more committed than ever. I get to laugh every day, get to witness passion every day. I am challenged and grow and learn every day. And I get to witness the impact that our programs have on educators and kids every day. That makes my work worth doing.

Cons

Despite my pros above, no company is perfect, we all have growing to do and there is opportunity for that at Edmentum as well. We need stronger employee and leadership development programs to support the dynamic nature of our business and growth so that we can continue to promote from within. We need to continue our path towards transparency. And we need to continue to make some of our internal processes easier to navigate. We have work to do, and it is important that we continue to recognize and own that work.

1.0
Dec 11, 2013

Definitely not a good place to work

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Pros

I like the people I worked with.

Cons

The first thing is that the positive reviews that keep coming up on this company are clearly written by managers or the marketing team. I don't know anyone at the company who truly feel that positive about working there! The changes that were recently made were not positive. They took a strong company in Study Island and basically destroyed it in many ways. They increased prices 50% and are no longer customer centric. My salary and others were dramatically decreased, and then the explanation is that we can't sell under the new rules, it's not their comp plan. When it was across the board it is clearly the comp plan. The new management are extreme micro managers. They watch everything you do and are hovering all the time. You get to clock in and out like you are being babysat and some people even have to clock in and out for bathroom breaks. There were also hard working people who were very supportive of the company and they were recently laid off without warning. They were told they would get jobs in other departments and most didn't. There is really no job security for anyone. As soon as your sales are not good you will be on an improvement plan and be let go. It doesn't matter what's going on in your territory. It will fall on you. The final thing is to look clearly at the positive reviews. They clearly are written by management and are not true at all. I'm sure after this one appears there will be some positive ones written to push mine to the bottom of the list.

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