What is working from home like at Guild?

-Fully Remote -Pay is great for competitive depending on role -Decent Benefits -Good work from home tech and excellent onboarding

-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."

Some of the people and the ability to work from home. That's it.

Working at Guild Education was the most mentally and emotionally draining experience of my career. The company operates like a high school clique where promotions are based on popularity rather than merit. Leadership consists of self-serving oligarchs who care more about lining their own pockets than supporting employees, creating a fear-based culture where questioning decisions is discouraged. The organization is unstable and constantly reinvents itself every six months with no real mission or direction, leading to endless turnover and layoffs. Systems are broken and convoluted, making even simple tasks unnecessarily difficult. Toxic positivity runs rampant, and employees are expected to smile through the dysfunction and be grateful to work there no matter how unfair or exhausting the environment is. Silos dominate the workplace, collaboration is nonexistent, and the lack of a 401(k) match is just another sign of how little they invest in their employees. The entire experience was a cycle of stress, uncertainty, and disillusionment, making it the worst job I have ever had.

Work from home and health insurance

I used to really enjoy the challenging nature of the work and always tried to maintain a positive attitude. However, over time, I noticed a troubling pattern within the company culture. Leadership would often gaslight employees—making you feel like you’re wrong even when the data clearly shows you’re right. Instead of focusing on facts and accountability, they would shift blame onto others without taking the time to investigate properly. It became extremely frustrating and emotionally draining to be in an environment where you’re constantly second-guessed, not because you were incorrect, but because management refused to look at the actual data. Eventually, I realized this cycle was not healthy or fair, and I made the decision to leave respectfully. No job is perfect, but no employee should be made to feel like the truth doesn’t matter.

Amazing staff Work from home

Terrible leadership No 401k match New culture of “move fast” over delivering quality work Massive layoffs two years in a row with an expectation that remaining employees pick up the slack Business is failing fast Options are worthless