Interesting.. - Senior Engineer College Board Employee Review

3.0
22 Apr 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- 2x match on 403B contributions up to 5% (you contribute 5, they contribute 10) - Talent has job security - Potential - Not difficult work - Effort to modernize practices & culture

Cons

- Red tape. - Pseudo startup environment(s) with highly distributed, but isolated teams, stakeholders, & information, often with duplicate and/or competing goals and objectives. - Growth potential is often unrealized because of competing job security incentives, poor resource planning/utilization, and lack of maturity in leadership in the engineering organizations. - Boring work + red tape + lack of project management and maturity/direction leads to turnover and burnout. - Career development track emphasizes selling over actual contributions and development. Very little accountability. - Talent leaves after wading through backwaters. - Culture bias. - Would not advise as a place to learn best practices, though they are improving, I think.

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College Board Response
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Thank you for sharing your experiences on working at College Board. We are proud of the retirement benefits we offer to our employees. However, we are disappointed to hear your concerns and we hope that you will bring them up to your manager or talent business partner. We are committed to the learning and development of all employees. We want employees to feel empowered to drive how they grow and know that they have the support from their managers.

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