Premise: start-up within a large company. Reality: bloat, bureaucracy, lack of focus and leadership - Anonymous employee Apollo Education Group Employee Review

Tackling an important market segment: higher ed, jobs, skills. Good people, great location (downtown SF). The product team members were smart and hardworking. There's a huge disconnect between this 'start-up' group and the main organization. And the acquisition and integration of a small (real) startup made the situation more complicated, confusing and disorganized.