College Board Reviews

Pros

Work only Saturdays and/or Sundays Good pay - $125 per session

Cons

Have to wake up early Feel bad if students forget ID, calculator, etc.

Pros

Mission driven, sharp people looking to make a difference. Agile tech culture.

Cons

Nonprofits can be highly political, and this place is no different.

Pros

Great place to work at. Comparable perks in the relevant IT industry.

Cons

Depending on which team you are part of, growth may or may not be possible.

Pros

This is a decent job for people with education backgrounds who are tired of low pay. The money and benefits are definitely competetive--20 days PTO/10 sick days, and health insurance good enough for my family. They also do 401k matching up to $10k. I appreciate that they're allowing us to WFH permanently post-Covid. The organization is quite siloed, so I interact with upper management quite little and have no idea how other departments operate, but mine feels laid back and full of people I genuinely like.

Cons

I deeply distrust all of upper management, to be quite honest. It seems as if CB does mass layoffs every 7-10 years when they decide that the current iterations of their tests are no longer profitable. This time around, they fired 10% of the staff--40% in my department. I was pretty creeped out by the way management has handled this layoff--lots of corporate speak, the phrase "There will always be barbarians at the gates of Rome" was thrown out--and it made me seriously rethink my plan to stay at the organization long term. In the wake of the layoff, CB has rushed to churn out a totally new set of products at the expense of quality, not to mention employee morale and work-life balance. It all feels very rushed and ill-conceived. The higher ups get all misty eyed when they talk about how much our organization helps students, and I'm just not buying it. Just look at all the ways the SAT nickels and dimes students, or the fact that they sell their data to colleges who solicit applications from students who have no chance of getting in, just to keep their admissions numbers low. The resumes of the leadership team read like a roll call of educational programs that are iffy at best, actively harmful at worst--Common Core, Teach for America, test prep companies, etc. I'm obviously implicated too, because I choose to stay, but it's just disconcerting to hear the dissonance between what CB does and what CB thinks it does. I work here because I need a job and am qualified for this work, but I do not believe in our mission for one second. I might have before, but this recent layoff opened my eyes to the fact that this is, bottom line, a business. The SAT and AP are money makers, and it's the money, not the best interests of the students or the staff, that they will guard at all costs.

Pros

Fun atmosphere, great management, diverse employer

Cons

Little training on how to handle hard to dal with customers

Pros

Benefits are good, especially after 5 years of employment all kids in the family are eligible to get certain portion of college fees re-imbursement.

Cons

- Promotions are based on favoritism not based on talent . This defeats the main purpose of collegebound (SAT exams are to bring fairness for college admissions). This leads to bad culture in the organization -

Pros

Really great work life balance that is respected. At my position and seniority level I had the flexibility to choose the projects I wanted to work on. The work was rewarding as it supported the education mission of the organization.

Cons

Better project and program management would help provide direction and goals for project teams. It did come to feel like people were just "doing things" down in the weeds without understanding true end goals.