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Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes

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Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes reviews

3.0

36% would recommend to a friend

(872 total reviews)

Nanci Bell

26% approve of CEO

19% positive business outlook

Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 872 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes 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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872 reviews
1.0
Sep 5, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting & fun coworkers, generally good programs for working with the kids. The kids were great too. ...and that's about it.

Cons

Focus solely on making money. Really, that's their only purpose. Every single person walking in the door got a recommendation for instruction whether it would help them or not. Center Director during my time there was even worse than a micro-manager, I would call her a nano-manager. At one point I was asked to write out what I spent every minute of my day on. Had to report this at 3 hour long meetings a day. Work asked of me was not reasonable within time constraints. When I upheld policies as asked (that I disagreed with) that made the customers upset, it would result in me being reprimanded for angering the customer. When given a promotion to an exempt position, I called a meeting to discuss how 70+ hours of work a week was not reasonable, and was told that it was what was expected and if I couldn't handle it they would find someone else. When told my phone skills were not up to par, suffered through phone trainings where all supervisors would call me at once and act like high maintenance & unhappy customers - I still have fears of the phone to this day. In all future jobs I have been very successful - so I don't think I was the problem at all. I mean, they went through 12 office managers in 7 years? Then called me into a meeting to give feedback on why that might be, which turned into them explaining the personal failures of each person in the position.

2.0
Jun 18, 2020

For this hourly wage, work retail instead.

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The kids are amazing. My direct supervisors are good, too.

Cons

The people who run this company at the corporate level are some of the greediest out there. You're really going to charge families $125 an hour and pay your teachers $16 an hour? Where's the rest going? Don't tell me it's to those dumb, white, "company policy" couches in every center. It's either in the CEO's pocket or directly feeding back into her plan for world domination (why are you opening new international centers during a global pandemic?). The micromanagement is overwhelming. The unannounced, nitpicky "mentors" coming into sessions on a very frequent basis to watch me teach make me feel like I'm on Big Brother, not employed as a teacher. I feel like some people who work here don't put in that much effort, and while it seems corporate thinks that's because they aren't whipped into perfect form, it's probably because they're emotionally occupied by looking for a better job.

1.0
Dec 16, 2017

You're Not Human

Recommend
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Pros

Connecting with the kids. Seeings them improve and grow more confident in themselves.

Cons

This company will cut your wages one week and in the next nearly double your workload, all because corporate made poor financial decisions. In the center I work at, most of our children are severely special needs, meaning that I and the rest of the staff basically do the same work as special ed. teachers, yet we're not officially trained to do such work and are paid a mere fraction of what a special ed. teacher makes. I'm a hard worker. I know it's easy to say that, but I've really been giving my all to this company. I don't believe in giving less than 110%, and if I did give less I'd feel guilty (that's just a personal flaw). My point in bringing this up is that, no matter what I do, no matter how much I give, no matter how exhausted and empty I feel at the end of the day, it's NEVER enough for this company. They will ALWAYS demand more from you, even when you're running on empty. And it's not because they love the children so much. No. This is for-profit education. Their priority (no matter how well they mask it) is making money. They exploit desperate parents of special needs kids, promising these parents revolutionary change for absurd prices (over $120 an hour for multiple hours per day). And, honestly, sometimes our program does work, and it works well. But it's not meant for the severe children that I teach day in and day out. We're bending over backwards for these kids because we've grown to really care for them, trying to make the program work as best we can. I see it in all of my co-workers. Every single one of them. We CARE about these kids. This company, however, doesn't seem to care about us. When they do offer us rewards for our work, the rewards are, at best, meager. Oh, and here's the kicker: they won't let you put them as a reference or write you a recommendation letter.

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