StrongMind reviews

3.6

70% would recommend to a friend

(120 total reviews)

Damian Creamer

61% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

StrongMind has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 120 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The StrongMind 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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120 reviews
4.0
Sep 25, 2018

Curriculum

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

regular team communication, input is received and put to use, fun company meetings, fun holiday parties, upper management is not inaccessible

Cons

patience and persistence is a must to work here

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StrongMind Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time as a current employee to write a positive review of your experience at StrongMind. We appreciate your feedback and continue to strive for improvement. Thank you for your continued dedication to the StrongMind vision, mission and values.
4.0
Jul 7, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Being an employee here for several years, I've found that Strongmind (formerly Flipswitch) has always been a place that lets you mold it into what you want of it. Leadership favors the employees that add cultural value and go beyond to make the place a better work environment (what company doesn't like those kind of employees). There is room at Strongmind to come in and work your 8 to 5, but you may not see much internal growth, and may find yourself on the outside of company values. The company is favorable in regards to innovation, new technologies, career growth through learning. The CEO dreams big, so there are a lot of projects that come down to teams for opportunity to innovate and work with cutting edge development tools. The company is financially secure from what I know, and has above average benefits for an IT company. All the necessary medical benefits, 401k (3% match), gym/yoga studio, opportunity to join work leagues (softball/bowling/etc). Leadership does a pretty good job being transparent and goals are communicated well to give a good picture of the company going forward. I always felt that management encourage individuals to bring up concerns for discussion/resolution. The people that work at Strongmind are amazing. They like to have a lot of fun and very genuine group. You can build some very strong relationships with people from every department in the company.

Cons

Although a big portion of the company vision makes sense and most employees can see the value of it (decouple of monolithic applications, lead the market with rich self-authored course content), I do believe implementation for displaying/assessing that content and newly developed application Courseware (formerly CoursePlayer) may have gone in a direction that has brought a lot of concern to internal teams/employees. Deadlines have sped up the development life-cycle and releases have gone out with some issue, and lack of feature parity of legacy CoursePlayer. Communication among-st leadership is still a work in progress. There have been several instances where same-level management has not been aligned with the same short-term decisions/goals. The company has more of a flattened management level, which overall can be a good thing, but comes with some negative. Not a clear path for individual career goals to transition to a management role in most departments (IT/Creative/Curriculum).

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StrongMind Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time as a former employee to write your positive review. StrongMind does have an amazing team. We appreciate your additional feedback and certainly take it into consideration as we continue to strive for improvement and excellence.
2.0
Jul 6, 2018

Software Engineer

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great facilities, latest technology, team work, management is trying to get better

Cons

Lack of company focus , shaky industry

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