Great Minds reviews

3.1

47% would recommend to a friend

(313 total reviews)
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John White

76% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Great Minds has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 313 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Great Minds 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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313 reviews
1.0
Dec 5, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Still looking for something good.

Cons

The head in the sand CEO, Lynn Munson, ran things into the ground so much that she needed to hire a man to come in and fix things. Big Daddy, John White showed up to hand out pink slips just like he did when he was superintendent of education in Louisiana. All year he lied and never let on that the cuts were coming. Then he dropped the hammer. But at least Lynn still gets to buy another dinosaur. Priorities, you know. Now here's the kicker... 3 days after they informed loads of people about deep salary cuts and even more people that they’d be unemployed in 8 weeks, HR sent out messaging about celebrating our Great Place to Work label. The message included various ways to celebrate like a photo contests and new zoom backgrounds. HEARTLESS I tell you. Let's celebrate as we fire good people. Let's change our zoom background to confetti, red balloons, and fireworks as we meet with people who lost their jobs but have to keep working through the end of the year and people who are looking at tens of thousands of dollars less pay in the new year. Let's send in photos and videos of our happy work and maybe win an Amazon gift card. Salt on the wound for sure.

1.0
Nov 29, 2023

Dumpster Fire

Recommend
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Pros

My co-workers have been incredible and flexibility of remote work

Cons

Despite years of excellent work from myself and hundreds of other employees we have been laid off right before the Holidays leaving families with no insurance, no income and traumatized while also being told they cannot give any feedback on why those of us being let go were not chosen. The upper management and CEO have no compassion and choosing the employees who got to keep their jobs was based off of popularity and who you are friends with at the top. This company does not value diversity, work-life balance, or people in general. There is no chance for equal opportunity and nobody here ever has “job security”. The cuts will continue to occur as upper management has more friends that end up needing high paying jobs and have titles that are “made up” specifically for them.

1.0
Jun 14, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I don't think there are any "pros" worth enduring the way they treat their employees

Cons

After months of lying to their employees, many were recently emailed a letter by the company stating that the following day would be their last. No one from HR, management, or leadership reached out to them. Truly disgusting behavior. HR preaches about being "gr8 leaders" and "growing with great minds" but acts like they have no idea that people are being abandoned by their workplace. How does anyone making these decisions sleep at night? Meanwhile, the rest of the employees are left to grieve the loss of their coworkers while pretending to be grateful for their pay cuts and demotions. I understand that business decisions need to be made but these are human beings that deserve a shred of respect and dignity. It's as if the best way to go about this wasn't even considered. Baffled as to how this could be executed so poorly. Not sure how the rest of us can move on now that they have made it clear that any moment might be our last and the company wouldn't care less.

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