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Best job I ever had! - Junior Media Developer Archipelago Learning Employee Review

4.0
11 Oct 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Opportunity to learn and grow! Part of my supervisor's job was to identify areas where I wanted to learn new skills and help make plans to advance in the company. I really felt I like an asset to the company, and that the company was investing in my future. Not a dead end job.

Cons

Arch was bought by PLATO Learning in 2012 and I was one of many employees that were laid off. The two companies formed a new company called Edmentum soon after that. I don't get the impression from my discussions with former co-workers that Edmentum has anything like the fertile creative culture that Archipelago had.

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4.0
28 Mar 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great leadership, good communication, good pay, beautiful office space

Cons

Very silo'd departments, put more value in certain brands and didn't care about others, used an internal software system

2.0
15 Sept 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits, people you work with

Cons

Management is poor. Employees don't trust the executive leadership. The CEO wants employees to work long hours for little pay. He wants employees to be engaged in their jobs and make suggestions to his open door, but employees don't want to approach him and suggestions aren't received. There is a fake perception of communication to employees with little meetings here and there; it is all the same talk over and over. No one is inspired. The company operations aren't organized. Go back to being a big fish in a little pond (private). The majority of managers have no management experience. No matter how they try to spin it, there are no opportunities here professionally.

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