Despite its flaws, best place I’ve worked - Customer Success Representative McGraw Hill Employee Review

4.0
10 Nov 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Since 2022, MH has invested heavily in building a world class Customer Success team for the higher education business. Lots of ongoing learning opportunities. Generally have good, kind, hardworking coworkers and bosses. Business goals are clear, and my values feel in alignment with the company. Love the work of designing and implementing digital courses with faculty. Despite any flaws, this is still the best company I’ve ever worked for.

Cons

CSRs wear too many hats and very uneven distribution of workloads amongst my team. It’s normal for one CSR to be responsible for $6 million ARR and 400+ courses across 20 different campuses while their direct teammates have half that workload yet earn the same. This would never happen at other tech companies without a clear difference in title and salary. The bigger your workload, the harder it is to attain sales goals because they are measured as % growth. Hire more people or give promotions & raises where they are due. Many of the old guard employees have never worked outside of textbook publishing, which gives them a very narrow idea of how the business should be run. This is the main reason MH took so long to evolve into a true edtech business model. Lots of wasted time chasing random metrics. Overuse of tracking 100 data points distracts from the end goal of keeping customers happy and growing the business $$. No CS career path to speak of.

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McGraw Hill Response
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Thank you for the feedback. It's great to hear you enjoy the the people you work with. We want our team to feel like they have opportunities to grow and develop, so thank you for your feedback about CS career paths. If you would like to share any further details, please email us at talentacquisition@mheducation.com. Thank you!

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