College Board Reviews

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Nothing to note at this time.

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None at this time thanks!

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Very little room for you to be yourself when handling customer service calls, due to strict "script" it could come off to customers as robotic or non empathetic to certain situations.

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There is little to no respect for experience. There is little to no support given for huge projects. Leadership is either hands off, or negative and demeaning. There are no leaders that I encountered that empowered their employees. In fact, the opposite would occur.
Respected values seemed to all be negative in nature (throwing people under the bus, disrespecting others, superficial assets, etc.)
The energy at the College Board is on of "dog-eat-dog" - don't be enticed by the money, it's not worth it.

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They talk about family and how great they are as a team but its not a friendly environment, has lack of training, not enough work, micromanagers, and no room to grow or move into another position.

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- Management at VP/Ex. Dir/Senior Director level could be better

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I worked at the College Board in a dept that was designed to help low-income and minority students and yet, I heard my supervisors making sexist and racist jokes frequently. For example, when we launched our rural program to help kids in those kind of areas, my boss was furious that she had to help white people and would say this nearly every time we had a meeting about rural outreach.

The College Board is not a place with integrity. For them, it's all about making money off the backs of students and their families. A great example of this is how they pushed and pushed for Computer Science to be a high school requirement. Guess why? So they could sell AP exams in that subject. (They would love nothing better than to insinuate AP exams so deeply into high school graduation requirements that students could not graduate without taking at least one AP. )

The environment itself is generally hostile toward women. In March 2017, we had our 3 day work party at a convention center near DC. C-Suite leaders were falling down drunk, gambling at a local casino. It was truly "awe-inspiring." It showed what many people know already there -- the leadership is a boys-only club many of whom have been working together at various educational companies for years, ripping off students and enriching themselves from public money.

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The tasks are relatively static

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They have exceeded their space, so some growing pains with regard to logistics

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The Reston office has had trouble keeping a Vice President in the position for the past 20 years. They're there for a couple of years (or less at a time). I'd say it's not the VP's fault at this point. There's a disconnect with what happens at "corporate" in New York, and I would lay that on New York. When you go through 10 VPs in twenty years, it's not "them", it's "you." The lower and middle management on the whole is pretty good. But the higher you go, the less impressed I've been.