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Art of Problem Solving

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Disorganized and poorly managed - Instructor Art of Problem Solving Employee Review

2.0
Oct 1, 2019
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Pros

You get to work with enthusiastic, inspired students. It's not very difficult work and it pays decently well.

Cons

The other negative review (with the title "Run Away") is spot on. This company is poorly managed. As an instructor, your job is to go through the pre-written scripts. While technically, the instructors are told not to edit scripts without informing the curriculum team, the curriculum team is in fact very difficult to get a hold of. That means that a lot of instructors add material to scripts without checking in with anyone, resulting in complicated, disorganized scripts. In the years I've worked for Art of Problem Solving, no one has gone through the scripts and made sure they hang together. The added instructor comments aren't incorporated or streamlined. Dead-end questions don't get taken out, despite the fact that the transcripts clearly show which approaches work in class and which approaches do not. All of these issues put together mean that you wind up running scripts over and over again despite knowing from last time that the scripts will not communicate the concepts clearly. Given how strong and motivated the students are, this is a frustrating experience. It is also very difficult to get in touch with anyone about any substantial issues, like the script issues I mentioned above, but also many others. The management structure of the company is very flat, which means that there aren't built-in structures for dealing with commonplace problems. The company is much more interested in expanding than in making sure it's producing a good product.

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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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