Everest College Reviews

I have been working at Everest College part-time for less than a year

Pros – Courses are canned. Very little preparation. Curriculum is excellent

Cons – Where to start? Deans, administrative assistants, and staff take micromanagement to a whole new level. They constantly monitor instructor email. They evaluate you on everything from not catching a student's misspelling on an assignment to the length of time you take to respond to email (if you are 24 hours and 5 minutes over the deadline, there is a major problem). Instructors are given little academic freedom in the classroom. You are told what announcements to post. When to post them. You are told how to address students and when to respond to them. You are instructed on when to participate in class discussions and the manner with which you will reach out to students who are "in trouble" in the class. All of this is an insult to seasoned (adult) instructors. Note to Everest: this is borderline harassment. You cannot bully and harass those in your employ. There is a push to keep students in the classroom who should not be in the classroom. The focus is on profits and not preparing students to compete for jobs that will elevate their standing of living. Everest makes it incredibly difficult for instructors to succeed in the online classroom.

Advice to Senior Management – Note to Everest: You cannot bully and harass those in your employ and expect them to be focused in the classroom and gracious with your students. There is a push to keep students in the classroom who should not be in the classroom. The focus is on profits and not preparing students to compete for jobs that will elevate their standing of living. Everest makes it incredibly difficult for instructors to succeed in the online

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Everest College full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Initiating change and improving a student's' self worth. Ability to improve a region with medical knowledge. Self actualization fulfilled. Imparting and trouble shooting every nuance of working in the Medical Field. Knowing your students will be successful with encouragement, yet a tough love attitude to increase their drive and desire to be the best.

Cons – Unbelievable racial bias, 40+ hours IN THE CLASSROOM...at the mercy of revolving Management and their never ending demands to alter previous directives. Telling students to bring their children to Campus to get 5 minutes of attendance so they aren't dropped. Poor unethical treatment.

Advice to Senior Management – Realize that Instructors are the entire reason a student is successful. Investigate your Dept. Chairs...DOE. Give them the tools to be successful. Corporate may not realize the tools are there, they are just not shared with the Instructors. Some don't even know how to access the online tools, or that we have a portal. Terrible training. Obtuse disregard for intelligence. Judged on attrition, yet not paid for keeping students in the classroom.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Everest College full-time for more than a year

Pros – Co-workers are extremely friendly and helpful in your initial process. People go out of their way to help.

Cons – Management is completely disorganized. Very condescending. Very little communication between different levels of management.

Advice to Senior Management – Have a uniform set of rules and apply them evenly.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Everest College full-time for less than a year

Pros – Being able to help students make a better life for themselves

Cons – Leadership and management is very unorganized and very poor
There are no set process and no solid leads.
Every week there is a new process that will change either by the end of that week or by the next week
Threatened every week that they will cut your job
No support at all because you can't trust leadership
Process and ideas that management comes up with are so out of left field and are not process and ideas that they have evidence that has been used at that particular organization and when you call their hands on it they get defensive and think your trying to cause trouble or your testing them
Nothing is confidential especially if you are going to the President and expressing problems in the a particular department
Just very unorganized

Advice to Senior Management – Promote from within because hiring people from the outside hurts and ruin the organization structure because their ideas are not solid ideas and have been things that have been founded to work because they didn't start from the ground up. And if you are going to hire from outside for leadership positions do a more through check.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at Everest College full-time for less than a year

Pros – You learn a lot because they dump a lot on you and you have no choice but to sink or swim.

Cons – Horrible leadership, no training, all about a numbers game and your number will never satisfy the company because there are so many students to place (in jobs related to their field--this is ultimately what everything comes down too). This is thanks to poor planning (enrolling too many students). Turn over is extreme, you will understand once you start--like something out of a movie. Never saw "Office Space" but heard lots of comparisons.

Advice to Senior Management – Iron fists and extreme micro management will never yield positive results. Get managers that know how to WORK with a team, not slave drive. Left on my own, cherish my sanity.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Everest College as a contractor for more than 3 years

Pros – Most of the instructors are great people to work with

Cons – They lie to adjunct instructors with promises of full-time employment, but do not deliver. This is a common practice at the campus in Henderson, NV. Opportunities for advancement is limited to "favorites" and these folks usually can't come close to meeting the requirements listed on the job advertisement. Further, job openings are advertised, but there really isn't an opening because they know who will be hired before the opening is advertised.
     The current academic dean isn't educationally qualified to teach in college, yet he has been promoted in spite of the fact that he spent his first 3 years demeaning other instructors at every opportunity and is personally responsible for the loss of 2 well qualified, well liked instructors and 1 department chairperson who had been there longer than him.
     Employees suddenly disappear on a fairly regular basis with no explanation. This has happened three times in the last two months. Policies and job duties are added and/or changed without adequate explanation.
     Most of the students are from low income households and do not have the skills needed to succeed in college. Yet they are manipulated into paying a vert high tuition for a sub-standard education that many employers won't recognize. Instructors are required to be more like parole officers (keeping up with adult students) and are pressured to falsify attendance records and give passing grades to failing students in order to retain the students.

Advice to Senior Management – Dear Management, If you want this campus/company to fail, don't change a thing. If you want it to succeed, serious changes need to be made. The environment needs to be one in which an employee can openly voice concerns without fear of losing their job. Second, appreciation is shown by giving a certificate or something similarly cheap. If you want to show appreciation, put the money on the check and when you promise an instructor (or anyone else) a full-time position, either keep your promise or look them in the eye and tell them it isn't going to happen and why. Lastly, stop playing favorites and promoting the worst people possible to positions they aren't qualified to be in.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Everest College full-time for more than a year

Pros – Unfortunately I have none to report

Cons – Unethical Business which puts high pressure on employees to do things they would typically not do. Very unstable job security, employees or upper management could be replaced at an instant if regional’s felt the need to do so. Employees are constantly threatened with being fired, because managers were immature and under trained. Employees are not encouraged to pursue higher education. Favoritism was a big issue at this company as well. Health benefits were more than double it would typically be. I would recommend avoiding this company by all means.

Advice to Senior Management – None

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Everest College full-time for more than a year

Pros – It's nice working with current and potential students and trying to help them improve their lives.

Cons – Micro Management, Constant policy changes, more concerned with getting enrollments and not the actual students, we have to harrass people via phone, very few advancement opportunities, terrible training/onboarding

Advice to Senior Management – Pay attention to your pillars and do business the right way. Improve the quality of education that you provide and treat your work force right.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Everest College

Pros – This position has a flexible schedule.

Cons – No communicantion of changes that effect performance.

Advice to Senior Management – Employee morale building is important. This is not an easy job. Could get better performance from this department is employees feedback was valued.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Everest College

Pros – Benefit package is good and you only have to wait one month to come on board
Most of the people you work with are great, although some are ghetto
Food provided during meetings was appreciated since we spent most of our time in meetings

Cons – Lack of Accountability
Scare tactics and scape goat scenarios
Lower pay than other colleges
Lack of training to instructors - thrown in classroom without any support

Advice to Senior Management – Take a closer look at complaints from students and lower level employees to get a handle on what upper management is doing

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend