Apollo Group Reviews

Pros

Great benefits, free tuition up to a certain amount, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan.

Cons

They put you on the floor and kind of leave you be without lots of proper guidance. Lets just say they dont hold your hand and you have to figure out a lot of it on your own.

Pros

Good People, team work. Reasonable expectations.

Cons

Lack of direction by senior management. Issues with pay equity per positions and duties performed. New employees come it at rates higher than current people many times.

Pros

Very open-minded organization. Though change is constant, management I work with is very open to exploring new and better ways of conducting business.

Cons

Some systems, infrastructure, and processes are in state of flux or need to be upgraded. However, this is also an opportunity to help build/grow an already established organization and seems to be a focus within the management team.

Advice to Senior Management

I'm too new to offer any advice. I'll type a few more words to meet the minimum required number of words.

Pros

Apollo represents where education needs to go...but just lacks leadership and talent to get there.

Cons

Micro manager/management in development group. He will talk to hear himself talk, not room for any other opinions and if you dare to challenge that watch out! CYA culture. Lack of support from upper management. Shake up following surprise CTO departure leaves a big void and executing the EaaS vision is in limbo. You have to wait 2 months before you can receive health and retirement benefits.
Place to avoid. MANY other better opportunities in the valley and in the city!

Advice to Senior Management

Clean house in the Dev group starting with the figurehead/micro manager of that group...

Pros

Employee stock option program, free tuition benefits, highly educated workforce, clean and professional environment, New facility on Fountainhead Parkway in Tempe is very impressive.

Cons

It is hard to get in at the Apollo Group. I am a three time University of Phoenix Alumni, and it took me eight years of applying before I was made a formal offer.

Pros

Professional and personal development
Decent benefits
Good sector - "for profit" education; e-learning
People oriented managers
Great communication at all levels.
Super internal website encourages communication; transparency
Until recently, good equity compensation
Until recently, no layoffs

Cons

Lack of strategy that makes sense; people can sink their teeth into
Volatile education sector causing uncertainty about the future (global issues)
Mediocre pay levels except at the top
Lack of effective accountability tracking for "pay for performance"
Too long to complete projects; bureaucratic

Advice to Senior Management

Focus strategies on more concrete actions. Increase pay for performance. Emphasize urgency of project completion.

Pros

Most of the benefits are good to have as an employee, depending on your manager dissgression felxible time is an ok benefit as well. Working with postive co-workers as a team.

Cons

Management is constatntly changing personal views of performance and purpose of job title. Many changes take place and it is management responsibility to help guide and assist in all changes which is not always demonstrated. There is a bias in the way the call center is sun by various mangement and teams, it becomes overwhelming and negative to work in. A low importance demand or indirect communication can lead to misunderstandings which only go against the employee.

Advice to Senior Management

Some people shouldnt be managers, especially for a well known company as Apollo.

Pros

flexible schedules and opportunities to work closely with business

Cons

not challenged technically to prove

Advice to Senior Management

Reward employee based on performance, not based on his manager

Pros

The company in my opinion offers above average compensation in terms of salary and benefits. I assume that when it comes to management, it depends on the specific departments, but on my experience, management is competent and has given me their expectations and the different paths available to move up in the company.

Cons

Benefits are not effective from day one and there is probably some room for improvement when it comes to orientation.

Pros

Great educational benefits and opportunities for advancement.

Cons

Higher pay is very challenging to come by since everyone has a master's degree.

Advice to Senior Management

Improved leadership training.