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General Assembly reviews

3.5

34% would recommend to a friend

(624 total reviews)

Daniele Grassi

43% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

General Assembly has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 624 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The General Assembly employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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624 reviews
1.0
Feb 7, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Nice office, snacks galore, gym, nice part of town.

Cons

Everything. Do NOT work here. Worst management I have ever had, employees are disposable. Just horrific.

3.0
Dec 5, 2017

Instructor

Recommend
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Pros

Students are inspiring. As an instructor you can learn things from your co-instructor and students. Don't assume you know everything. Convenient if you want to take a break from doing design and want to teach Sometimes you get free lunch

Cons

Full time instructors are hired on contract. There is no career path or permanent hiring. There is no benefits. Contractors are hired as independent contractors on a 1099 yet independent contractors are under control of General assembly managers. Questionable tax basis from an IRS standpoint of whether contractors are independent contractors or 'employees'. Pay as an instructor is far less than what industry pay is if you are working as a person in your line of work. Curriculum is dated and needs work. Curriculum is buggy, aka slide are in wrong order, there's no cohesion between curriculum guides and presentations, etc. Job is far more than 40 hours of teaching a week. As an instructor you need to modify curriculum to fit your needs since important sections are missing; you need to be available for students because they have questions and want to learn; you may have to write presentation because there are topics you think are important from an industry standpoint but GA curriculum provides no basis Lack of planning and forecasting to schedule instructors for future classes, it's all scheduling at the last minute. As an instructor it gives you a one off experience. There's work that the instructor & partner teams are supposed to do; it's offloaded to instructors.

3.0
Oct 22, 2015

Fun but disorganized

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Teaching adults is fun and challenging. Instructors care about their classes. GA provides a nice work space and all the necessary little perks (coffee/tables/couches) for getting work done outside of class.

Cons

Operations are unbelievably disorganized. Curriculum development for new classes is a joke - they give you "class materials" that contain almost none of the relevant information and need to be completely re-written before they're fit for teaching. Accounting department is an embarrassment - at various points, they've managed to either fail to pay or double-pay myself and some of my colleagues.

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