Amateur Hour - Anonymous employee Guild Employee Review

-Not a single c-level or senior leader with any idea how to run a company or evaluate talent. Just a group of total amateurs. The all hands meetings are one of the most painful things I ever experienced in my career. -The mission is to help fortune 500 companies golden handcuff their employees with an education benefit. The way this is preached to employees as changing the world is cult like to a point that is disturbing. Guild does not care about front line workers and if they really did, they'd care about their own front line workers. -The product is a glorified course catalogue with tuition assistance and reimbursement. It somehow barely works and students hate using it. -Guild's culture is defined by toxic positivity, employee paranoia and a lack of transparency. Everything is decided behind the scenes, there's a reorg every other week and there's absolutely no vision ever. There's a Guild alumni slack that serves as a support group for hundreds of traumatized former employees. -There's a new performance management system every single year. It takes forever, introduces bias, and all promotions are decided by senior leadership anyway so none of it matters. Being a manager at Guild is a complete nightmare. -Millions of dollars are wasted on completely unnecessary expenditures, parties, poorly planned onsites and software. -Instead of fixing the lack of structure, planning and organization, guild blames its tools and software for every problem. Almost every project involves replacing a current existing working piece of software with one that will "fix everything." Guild has a great internal tech stack of tools, it's a people and leadership problem. -A completely incoherent brand and the recent rebranding is a complete joke. The company is still called Guild Education on this site and rebranded to Guild over a year ago. Social media presence is absolutely embarrassing and cringe. -Miserable employees. I've never worked anywhere people are so unhappy so do not believe pay for play "best places to work lists."