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Art of Problem Solving

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Teach the best math to the best students - Anonymous employee Art of Problem Solving Employee Review

5.0
Aug 16, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Have you ever spent the majority of your time reviewing how to multiply or divide fractions when you were supposed to teach conic sections? If you've ever taught high school math, you perhaps know what I am talking about. In comparison, AoPS is among the very few pre-college schools where authentic math is taught. Why are parabolas symmetric? Why are there infinitely many prime numbers? Why do we have 1/3 in the volume formula of a pyramid? These are among the questions you can dive into when teaching at AoPS. Many AoPS employees left their jobs at academia, schools, financial and tech companies to pursue their dream in math education. It is a company where capable people come together for a shared goal. Note that AoPS is expanding to the area of Chemistry, Language Arts, and Physics. So it is now more than just math.

Cons

Nothing really. Generally speaking, you need to share the same goals of the company in order to enjoy working there. This is particularly true when you work for a small company with a unique identity.

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5.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

Amazing office space filled with kind and intelligent people who all care about what they do!

Cons

Can't come up with any downsides honestly

1.0
May 14, 2026
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Pros

Nice campus in a great location

Cons

Though I was hired there in late July 2025 as a Language Arts Instructor, I never got to work in this capacity. After interviewing, coming in for a teaching demonstration, and completing a mountain of paperwork, I was informed that they did not actually have any class/es to offer me, but that I was "welcome" to say on in a substitute capacity. In the nearly year that followed, exactly one substitute opportunity matching my skill set and schedule became available but was snapped up before I could take it. I also received a lot of marketing emails and one webinar invite, as well as an alarming letter from their corporate HR, asking why I had not worked for them yet -- as if I had any control over this! If they wanted to know why I had not worked there, why not ask the person I'd been in contact with, who kept feeding me all these lies? To add insult to injury, in March of this year, they posted another vacancy advert for the same post I had applied for in 2025; when I enquired why, if they did not have anything for me in summer of 2025, they did not offer me this post when it was available, I was given some BS about how they were advertising for their "current campus needs" and thanked me for "understanding" No more "understanding," and I advise everyone else to steer clear of them; they're nothing more than an expensive, fancy version of Phoenix University.

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