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Should Have Been a Dream Job; Really Wasn't - Language Arts Curriculum Developer Art of Problem Solving Employee Review

1.0
Sep 9, 2020
Language arts curriculum developer
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Pros

Most of the newer employees at the company are top tier people in their fields. The interview and hiring processes that have been instituted in recent years are incredibly rigorous, so only the best of the best tend to make it through to the end. Entry-level employees from all departments are therefore really cool, passionate, and capable people. It makes working across teams exciting and fun.

Cons

My biggest issue with this job was how much it pulled a bait-and-switch on me. I felt like I was hired for my qualifications, my abilities, and my experience, but then all of those things were under-valued or discouraged. The entire structure of the company has seemed to change three or four times during my two years, each time adding more managers and not actually making my job or position clearer. When I tried to focus on the creative work that I was so excited by when I was hired, I would be hampered by restrictions that seemed based on passing whims rather than evidence or logic. Those restrictions would frequently be changed without my being informed, often at the very last minute. This meant that instead of having creative freedom, it often felt like I was jumping through hoops on an obstacle course that was always changing under my feet. I was also not supported by my immediate managers to the point where I felt paranoid about speaking at all. Management seemed paradoxically to be both overbearing and indecisive. Tiny, unimportant affairs seemed to get weeks of debate, while big, substantial issues would remain undiscussed and undecided. Trying to fix a problem before it became an issue seemed to be especially antithetical to this company. It also seemed to me that gender played a role in who was listened to and who was considered insubordinate. There were many times when a male colleague would repeat something I had already said and receive an entirely different reaction.

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Thank you for taking the time to reflect on your experience and give us this feedback. We understand that our company has undergone a lot of changes in the past few years and that there have been many shifts in our internal structures, processes, and procedures. We have also increasingly been recruiting and hiring employees who come from a wide variety of personal and professional backgrounds. As a result of this growth, we have worked to adjust our organizational structure in a way that will scale effectively with us. We understand that communicating all these changes effectively to all employees has sometimes been a challenge, and we will always revisit and improve our internal communication processes as we grow. We are also actively building a variety of training and development opportunities for our employees and are especially committed to building more training and mentoring opportunities for our managers. Finally, we highly value diversity as a company and are proud to have women on our VP team and in other management positions across the company.

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5.0
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1.0
May 14, 2026
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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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