Bloom Institute of Technology Reviews

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No longer time to do things

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Huge layoffs in 2022. Higher-ups don't listen to instructors and make huge company shifting decisions behind closed doors

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Lay offs were sudden with no empathy

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Quality of curriculum is not worth the price. Leadership disconnected from reality

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Sort of cult like and a history of taking advantage of students

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BT pays top dollar, and gives an extremely generous monthly stipend; however, they do not do a good job at managing their financials. Because of this, they have had to go through 2 mass layoffs in the past 2 years to fix these issues. We were told at the last "All Hands On" meeting that the company was stable, but 2 weeks later 50% of the workforce was laid off. A hiring freeze should have been implemented, and the stipend should have been taken away as a first line of defense to protect people's jobs. Some new hires started the day before layoffs. After the layoff, the CEO was tweeting an hour later about home schooling his child. A lot of people just lost their livelihood, and could have used more support. Not a good look.

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Leadership is *breathtakingly* incompetent. Three massive layoffs in three years. Broken promises, empty lip service, and lies. You'll be condescended to, underestimated, misallocated, under-resourced, milked for all you're worth, and cast aside. (Some reviews mentioning high pay... absolutely not. The company routinely hires very underqualified juniors to save money, and I suspect those reviews are from people making more than they made in previous non-tech jobs, but have no idea what they should be getting paid.)

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Start up with the changing direction all the time

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The culture has become stale. Where everyone used to put the student first and worked together regardless of title, now you will be criticized/QA'd from the top. The new executive team rarely spends time with the teams. Also, the school's new direction is just a copy of a new leader's prior experience.

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1. BloomTech is seriously mismanaging money. We just laid off almost 100 people right before holidays. There was little to no backwards planning in this decision and it was alarming. Evidence: we were hiring people the week up to letting everyone go. Some people were let go weeks into their role and some people had JUST started their new role that week. There was one person I know of who was due to start in a few weeks (quit their job and then was told they didn't have a job at BloomTech!) Why were we hiring up to the day of layoffs? Employees are also all given a 380 dollar stipend to use each month to use on "whatever makes us happy" and that was never cut, but people were. There were so many licenses not used and mismanaged, HR buying people lunch for prizes weeks before layoffs, and some departments had absolutely no guidelines for how they spent their money-and no one was overseeing/managing it. There are so many things that could have happened before letting so many people go. 2. Misalignment: The company is very unaligned. Everyone is operating in their own lane and no one is communicating. The leaders are horrible with communication and usually have no idea what is happening in other silos of the company. 3. Leadership: The right people are not in the right roles but stay, even if they are not performing/getting results. I truly believe a company's success starts at the top and with two rounds of layoffs, I think it's pretty clear. The CEO is very removed form the day to day and probably on Twitter more than he actually works. 4. The worst part is how they treated people when layoffs occured. The layoffs came as a complete surprise to most everyone in the company. Most managers didn't even find out about it until the night before. They told people who were "safe" right before the "all staff meeting" where they laid off the rest of the company. Then, had us join the meeting (videos on) and watch the CEO lay off everyone else. It was absolutely horrible. Not one employee had a conversation with their manager about the layoff-it was just told in a whole company meeting that "in 15 minutes you will get an email and it will say if you still have a job." So, everyone sat and waited, those safe already knew.