SAE Institute Reviews

Communication between management and employees is woeful. Us vs them mentality in most areas but mostly between management and everyone else. Pay is right on minimum wage and they use creative accounting to squeeze more hours out of everyone. Vague confusing contracts that are very difficult to decipher without someone who is experienced. I received two pay increases over 10 years while management took biyearly management retreats that bought zero benefits to the campus. In one instance a staff teamwork award was never paid out to the staff and was kept by management. Executive team is mostly white men. Creative industries are close to 50/50 parity resulting in some weird discrepancies in leadership and decision making methods. No connection to key industries and no support to build those connections to support current staff and current and alumni students. Becoming woefully behind the industry

Hard work is rewarded only with more work. Staff are badly over-worked, students badly under-served; especially those from overseas. The syllabus material is regularly rushed, late and/or incomplete. Onus for this, as well as miles of red tape, is placed entirely upon staff. Certain specific aspects of SAE's official internal policy actually contravene the National Employment Standard, yet so far as I am aware remain unchanged. In my opinion, SAE's management are as a matter of policy committed to keeping costs low and staff silent. A pervasive atmosphere of mistrust keeps staff afraid for their jobs; and HR are not there to help.