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Northwestern Polytechnic Reviews

2.6

34% would recommend to a friend

(37 total reviews)
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Don Gnatiuk

27% approve of CEO

20% positive business outlook

Northwestern Polytechnic has an employee rating of 2.6 out of 5 stars, based on 37 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Northwestern Polytechnic employee rating is 30% below average for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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37 reviews
1.0
2 Sept 2019

Horrific, sad place to work. Bullying is wide spread at this institution.

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Pros

There are some really amazing people working at GPRC and they make working there worthwhile. Too bad none of them have management positions. The benefits are good.

Cons

The management at the college is atrocious. They promote people who have no credentials to be in the positions they are in, but get around it by claiming “they are working on their Master’s or on their Bachelor’s degree”... If it wasn’t so sad, it’d be comical actually. This happens all the time. They employ some instructors to teach in programs without having ANY post secondary education themselves. Scary stuff!! DO NOT speak out about the bullying and harassment that is a wide spread culture at the college!!!!! Human Resources and management will seem as though they are listening at first, but you will be the one that will get disciplined in the end. The Human Resources department is the most unprofessional, gossipy bunch of women you will ever meet. Do not assume anything is confidential in their presence. This place has become so monumentally bad it’s sad. Every time you turn around there is another lawsuit against the college or one of its unions. Unions do not know how to represent their people as they are Employee Associations run by people who have NO idea what they are doing! The college is in desperate need of real union representation that is not in bed with management and Human Resources.

2.0
28 Apr 2023

Do not recommend

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Pros

You get a paycheque. There are some good people that work there

Cons

NWP values money for the executive team over their employees. The refuse to hire support staff and overload their employees and HR tells employees to “be grateful you have a job” and that “people need to be here for the work not the money”

2.0
28 Mar 2020

Toxic Work Environment

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Pros

Lots of opportunities for different jobs/promotions within the college, flexible hours, pay/benefits

Cons

The most toxic environment I have ever experienced. There are some genuinely friendly people, but it has a very “us vs them” mentality. There is an incredible amount of in-fighting between departments which results in many personal disputes between employees. The leadership is unwilling to address these issues, or they just have their heads in the sand pretending it doesn’t exist. Senior leaders tend to rely on fear to ensure compliance from employees which adds to employees’ distress. This place will send anyone with a hard work ethic, talent, or intelligence running for the hills. Great place to coast and collect a good paycheque if you don’t care about a fulfilling career, work relationships, or the community.

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