Pros
The hourly wage is great! You also have a LOT of freedom to make decisions.
Cons
Major changes are constantly being made and staff are not notified. The owner will promise you full time hours, then string you along until you accept working part-time. The only training provided is the 40-hour RBT training course that you do online, but the course doesn't begin to teach you what you will need to know when you start working with clients. No ongoing training except for 3-4 visits per week from the LaBA (who isn't actually being supervised by the BCBA). I only saw the BCBA once a month if I was lucky and when she showed up, all she did was confuse staff and parents by talking about procedures and concepts that weren't relevant to the client. The owner also uses a multi-disciplinary approach, and since starting at a new ABA company, I've learned that her approach violates several ethical codes because it is often not behavior analytic in nature. I would say the worst part about working here was the communication--which wasn't even bad, it just didn't exist. She opened a clinic and nobody knew about it until she started relocating staff there. Even then, not even the supervisors understand what is going on in that location. The lack of communication also means that the staff (myself included) have absolutely no idea what they are doing.
