Laureate Education Reviews

Pros

Overall the culture is really good, staff members are very passionate and motivated and Laureate's mission 'Here for Good' is entrenched in a lot of the company events, activities and behaviors.

Cons

Rapidly changing environment which can be a great challenge but also can result in some disruptions and people turnover

Pros

Competitive pay and benefits programs

Cons

Short term focus on earnings alone

Pros

Toilets that mostly flushed was nice

Cons

Inverse relationship between competence and position on the hierarchy

Pros

Location, food and pockets of talent, diligence and work ethic

Cons

Huge ego’s with low levels of experience and professionalism. Poor behaviour is tolerated and common place.

Pros

The people - many of whom genuinely care about the students; most of whom are very helpful and working under great amounts of stress

Cons

Have a read of the reviews. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but if I had to hazard a guess I'd say the vast majority of positive reviews were written by HR plants, attempting to raise aggregate scores. The few genuinely positive reviews were probably written by middle-to-upper management. These deluded clowns are so far removed from daily goings-on, so out-of-touch with ground staff, ever-increasing workloads, and basic company processes, that it really doesn't surprise me that they'd leave a positive review of this place. For anyone still interested, read the reviews. They all say the same thing. Work environment and (blame) culture is mostly toxic: VERY gossipy and catty. You'll hear about an inevitable restructure (they have one every year under a different buzz term) while making toast in the kitchen. Rumors will spread until everyone is sweating bullets wondering if they'll be unemployed come Christmas. Meanwhile management are fully aware of the dissent and say absolutely nothing. They LOVE that level of anxiety in their employees. They see it as motivation. CEO might as well live on the moon, she's so far out of touch. Middle management conspire to serve their own egos, knifing each other, running project after project into the ground under the banner of inventiveness, all the while with no concern for ground staff where the actual work is done. The level of resentment and dissatisfaction on most campuses is scary. Look elsewhere for employment. This place probably won't even exist in another five years, the rate it's going.

Pros

Great colleagues, students and beautiful campuses

Cons

Good intentions lost in a messy tangle of weird organisational structure, where conflicting interests overpower and confuse increasingly exhausted staff