Scholastic reviews

3.4

41% would recommend to a friend

(1,174 total reviews)
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44% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Scholastic has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,174 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Scholastic employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Aug 7, 2014

Worst place I ever worked

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great products, decent work/life balance

Cons

The CEO has been around for ages and has a close knit group of people he listens to. Nobody else has a chance to change anything - and boy does it need changing. Most of the "inner circle" wouldn't know the digital business if it bit them. And they are flat-out mean and nasty - especially to any newcomers who try to introduce new ideas. The joke around the company is that they are just waiting for digital to go away. The other problem is that the CEO sets up his business units to be competitive with each other, which leads to lots of infighting at the upper levels - which naturally trickles down to the staff as well. So there is constant finger-pointing and blame. Nobody cares about solving problems - they just want to avoid being blamed for them.

5.0
Jul 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Although its a call center environment, it is spacious, professional and they have great marketing tools and technology at your finger tips which makes your job so much easier. They promote heavily from within and have great award ceremonies, awesome sales contests with great prizes like ipads, grills, trips etc.they also order lunches in for the employees alot! ,and most of the sales reps are great people to know and work with.

Cons

It's a very structured environment which can be difficult for some people. About 10% of the sales reps are always complaining about everything which can bring others down. Yet they are the first to hop in line for the free lunches, take the turkey and gifts home at the holidays, and take the many prizes. It does get annoying. And most of them (like the few that wrote negative reviews on this site) have been working there for many many years, which I think says a lot!

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