Frontline Education reviews

3.8

65% would recommend to a friend

(394 total reviews)
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Matt Strazza

76% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Frontline Education has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 394 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Frontline Education employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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394 reviews
1.0
Apr 26, 2018

Looking Back

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There is no doubt Frontline contains great people, and always has. As a business, it definitely has it's head on straight and is impacting education positively year over year. Working at Frontline can have a positive impact on future job opportunities.

Cons

Leaning too heavily on acquisitions to hit a $ amount valuation probably cost FL a large number of good employees who headed for the exits (new employees and long term employees). Is there a right or wrong answer on how to grow a company or how quickly? No. 'Was' Frontline different than many companies out there (education-related or not)? Absolutely. Is there anything wrong with an all out push to increase value and make more money? Depends on who you ask. Did many/all of the 'old timers' go through change BEFORE the last 3 or 4 years of more change? Sure. The more a company and its employees have to state how 'employee' or 'customer' focused they are, the less action there usually is to that end. The more a person says they're a great person; shouldn't they just show it?

2.0
Dec 8, 2020

No real vision beyond acquiring more companies

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Working from home, schedule flexibility, “unlimited” PTO

Cons

Frontline Education’s main goal is to acquire other companies. Not enough time is spent on integrating those companies and their products with the rest of the company. They seem to care more about numbers than retaining good employees. They’ve outsourced a massive number of positions and eliminated others.

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Frontline Education Response
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Thank you for sharing your comments. I am new to the organization and would very much like to understand how we can make Frontline a great place to work. If you are open to sharing additional thoughts, I can be reached at jdickinson@frontlineed.com. Thank you again for your feedback.
2.0
Mar 12, 2018

Used to be a great company

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Frontline used to be a great place to work. Work Life balance was there, management did things pretty well. Then it was time to make money for some investors on a VERY tightened time table that development knew wasn't going to work. We warned management about this issues. The new C-level management didn't care and loves giving themselves title changes and being in the press. Pros: Still seem to have some of the best medical coverage I have ever gotten in this line of work. 401K matching Very nice facitlities (Malvern) Great kitchen for lunch A lot of good people to work with

Cons

C-level management incapable of listening Good middle managers turned into whip crackers Firing of decent managers and replacing them with whip crackers Promoting toxic political people into managing roles I and many others left a lot of money on the table to find new jobs. This should be a sign of how bad it has gotten there. Many more will leave once the next "payout" happens. When the CEO tells everyone how great the culture is all the time yet spends little to no time in the Company headquarters, and that if you don't like here then leave.... I'll let you make the call. When a company can't even make a successful roll out of a new log in screen and having production issues taking the system down every morning for a few weeks, maybe someone should listen to the warnings about the quality of the software.

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