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What a shady company Ascend has purchased - Anonymous employee Ascend Learning Employee Review

2.0
Nov 8, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pay wasn't too bad.

Cons

Channels of communication are non-existant. Management wants nothing to do with the workers beneath them. God forbid you actually get promoted, because you definitely won't fit into their clique. Not to worry, you won't last long there. At least most of the management is gone at this point after the acquisition. The corporate culture of TesTeachers was toxic to the bone. TesTeachers held some very questionable business practices that made me incredibly uncomfortable working there. These would range anywhere from their "no refund" policy, to their plagiarized study material and even products that flat-out were non-functional.

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Pros

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Cons

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