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Not a software company - Anonymous employee Ascend Learning Employee Review

1.0
Nov 12, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is competitive, and the benefits are outstanding. The HR team really wants to make employees happy and take care of their people as well as they can.

Cons

Absolutely no understanding of how software development works. Deadlines are put on teams that are strapped for people, without any ability to change scope or hire on within the timeframe of the project. Upper management gives directives that are vague enough to keep them covered, but specific enough that interesting solutions are rule out. It's an enormous game of three card monte, and management is genuinely shocked that anyone can see through their street-level theatrics.

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Pros

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Cons

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