Does Gleim Publications pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Gleim Publications employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.7 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Gleim Publications. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Gleim Publications?

78% of Gleim Publications employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Gleim Publications 4.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.1 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Gleim Publications?

Software Developer (11) , Accounting Research Assistant (3) , Editor (2) , Personal Counselor (2)

What are the pros of working at Gleim Publications according to real employee reviews?

"Good management and good company" ((in 6 reviews)); "What they do best though is give you really great benefits like healthcare, paid" ((in 6 reviews)); "Decent pay" ((in 5 reviews)); "Flexible schedule" ((in 4 reviews)); "19, just as everyone is, but the Gleim family has poured in resources to help staff make smooth transitions offsite, positioning us all to continue delivering exceptional customer care in these unprecedented times." ((in 4 reviews))

Gleim Publications Reviews

4.1

78% would recommend to a friend

(54 total reviews)

Irvin N Gleim

82% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Company ratings over time

Ratings trend for the last 6 months (54 reviews)

Gleim Publications has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 54 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Gleim Publications employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

54 reviews

3.0

19 Oct 2015

Learning Experience

Software developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Flexible schedules. Mostly low-stress work. Mostly friendly people. Pretty easy to get hired. Profit sharing for "career" employees (3+ years).

Cons

Lowest wages. Prefers college students. High turn over. Lack of advancement. Lack of transparency. Management makes 2-5x as much as their developers, which is absurd, and they try to hide it. The best employees always leave because there is no incentive to stay. The company motto is "onwards and upwords" which translates to "make us some money because you need a job, but feel free to leave the minute you want a competitive paycheck."

1.0

5 Apr 2016

Not what was expected.

Software developer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

-Free Soda. -Cake Day. -Some of the managers seem genuinely nice and care about your well being mentally. -Benefits. -Ability to learn on the job because you will have to handle things yourself. -Please read cons however.-

Cons

-Expect a report to be written for every task completed throughout the day and how long it took you to complete it. -Talking to developers feel like talking to robots. Its only about programming code or work. Doesn't anyone watch sports or tv in general? You will get bored quick and fast. -If new, expect a huge dictionary of a in-house wiki to be read as "training" and to be crammed in a week. There is no assistance in training nor is it interactive. Trainers only seems to care if you take too long to complete it. -Strict Clocking-in Policy. -Not a team-centric job. You will feel alone. Small cliques everywhere. -Constantly watched by managers or senior developers to see if you are working. For every second you are on the clock you are expected to be working. If you take too long to their standards, they will constantly pester you about it. Don't expect to go to the bathroom for longer than 3 minutes. -You are placed into small rooms with 2 or 3 other developers or people completely unrelated to your function. The noise is atrocious from the loud typing of others. -The computers and technology is old. It seemed they went out of their way to find anything free that they could find and customize for the company. -Learn PHP before getting here, it will save you some headache. That is all what they do here except some old software that will be obsolete that was made in Java. -Listen to the person that said "Don't come!" in their review. I wish I did.

4.0

28 June 2016

Great place to get your footing

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Gleim is a family owned company and a good place to start early in your career when you don't have a ton of work experience under your belt. If you're a hard worker the pay is very competitive too, which is nice. Most people have a good sense of humor and I enjoy working with my co-workers. The atmosphere is casual and management is flexible with hours and dress-code. There's a lot of projects to work on, for me I'm always pretty busy. There's a lot of different types of projects as well; like I work on print stuff, packaging, fliers, t-shirts, books but then also webpages, emails and web ads. There's lots of variety which I like so my work doesn't get stale. They also do fun extra things each month like give the company a cake. They also have a Halloween costume contest, a Thanksgiving potluck, and a huge family-oriented Christmas party that's fun. It's a very diverse workplace too and a lot of people from different nationalities work there- which is pretty cool. What they do best though is give you really great benefits like healthcare, paid-vacation and SEP IRA (after a couple years) which is basically amazing. There's two kinds of people here, people that really love what they do and have worked here forever (like 10+ years easy) and people just starting off their professional career and move on after they get hired by larger companies.

Cons

-The building is older, but I have a lot of desk and shelf space, more than any other job I've had. -It can be stressful at times with deadlines and the amount of work, but I've never had a job that's NOT stressful sometimes, it's just the nature of my line of work.

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