Kaplan Reviews

Pros

Many opportunities for growth
Promote within

Cons

Highly matrixed structure
Markets served are shrinking

Advice to Senior Management

Focus on core business

Pros

People to work with are great.
Life/Work balance is respected.
Plenty of experience.

Cons

No room for growth.
Promotions are rare.

Pros

Name brand in the education industry, brand opens doors. The company relies on it overly so and ignores innovation at their peril.

Cons

Upper management often makes knee-jerk decisions based on emotion and a swift need to "repair losses" in the short term. This leads to a backwards, cost restrictive way of thinking about growth in a marketplace that is growing through investment and technology, not the bottom line.

Advice to Senior Management

Wall Street doesn't care about your short term earnings if they're being generated by events that reduce your future ability to earn returns for your shareholders.

Pros

Great Cafeteria
Nice work area
Not too much micromanagement

Cons

Management is C-L-U-E-L-E-S-S
Behind the times on technology

Advice to Senior Management

Invest in technology
Stop using code that is 8 years old and try not to sweep everything under the rug

Pros

Management cares for and communicates well with it's employees
People are nice
Casual environment
Decent benefits
Good work and personal life balance
Great Neighborhood

Cons

Low Salary
Not much room for advancement

Pros

Small company feel. Family oriented. Benefits of uber large organization. $3B company

Cons

Typical corporate politics you have to deal with

Pros

very little oversight and a lot of freedom

Cons

No room for advancement
HR is very uncooperative

Advice to Senior Management

Keep the employees informed. Their fears a probably worse than the truth. Everyone is looking for a new position.

Pros

you get to travel the world at company's expense....great flexibility in terms of work schedule

Cons

slow growth..poor salary...management doesn't listen to employee needs

Advice to Senior Management

Speak to your employees and be sure to connect with them

Pros

Good benefits, great colleagues, fun work environment. The students tend to be wealthy and know what they want, but will do the homework asked of them.

Cons

Few opportunities to move beyond part-time, management is more than willing to lay people off after the busy summer season.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to what the teachers ask for/request - they are the ones who satisfy the students and bring in your paycheck!

Pros

Travel, fun, people were great

Cons

very small company, limited benefits

Advice to Senior Management

Start another company and lets do this again