Ruthless Executive Management & Dysfunctional Technical Department - Manager In EScholastic Scholastic Employee Review

1.0
14 Mar 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The Scholastic brand is known worldwide, but especially in the United States, and it conjures warm images of familiarity and care via its many products. The benefits of working at Scholastic don't match the brand. The books products and magazines are high quality. The company does some very good community works.

Cons

Scholastic Technical Services (the corporate technical group) is dysfunctional at best and incompetent at worst; working with them is a constant struggle and an ineffective process. Executive management comes off as ruthless in their approach to employees, with layoffs that are inexplicable and seem rather mind-bogglingly mismanaged. Executive management also is rather unconcerned with provable facts about core technical weaknesses. The company culture is cold and morale is low.

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