Good people, terrible management - Anonymous employee Prep Zone Employee Review

1.0
Jan 13, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Many of the colleagues are great people - fresh grads who like fun and are smart. There does tend to be a mercenary streak though (promoted by the incentive structure), and the ones that stay are generally more morally bankrupt than the ones that smell the coffee after less than a year and move on. You can also make pretty good money if you play your cards right.

Cons

Terrible management. Highly immoral, don't respect employees or students one bit. Care only about sales, and not about quality delivery. Would usually prefer making a sale even if it meant messing up someone's future. The overall culture is also quite cutthroat, and the main CEO generally puts people in charge who are manipulative and sometimes sadistic, and care about money above all else. Most people don't stick it out, and the company seems to be over hill, with its deteriorating reputation finally catching up to it.

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4.0
Nov 5, 2013
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Pros

*Internationally mobile career in great cities. Prep Zone is in Dubai, Singapore and even Shanghai now. *Work with really smart people (it's test prep - these guys all have 2300 SAT and 760 GMATs) *After a year of intensive teaching, which can get redundant, there are a lot of content or sales/marketing stuff you can get involved with. *Many times you will have a lot of responsibility very early - great for your resume but a lot of work *Potential for decent pay after first 6 months or year

Cons

Company is growing so fast that roles aren't well defined and things can get sloppy Certain people involved in sales have too much power in the organization Teaching test-prep can get boring but if you're doing grad level stuff and interacting with GMAT or GRE students this is less of a problem. Starting pay can be a bit low but you tend to make more after 3 or 6 months

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1.0
Mar 3, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

(What pros?) I don't think there were many.

Cons

Not a very good place to work at all. Would not recommend.

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