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Apollo Education Group

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Apollo Education Group reviews

3.9

81% would recommend to a friend

(831 total reviews)
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Gregory W. Cappelli

85% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Apollo Education Group has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 831 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Apollo Education Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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831 reviews
3.0
Aug 14, 2013

Ups and downs

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Pros

Possibility to help a large base of students who need help.

Cons

Change fatigue, poor culture of innovation, stale management.

2.0
Aug 14, 2013
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Pros

Most of the IT employees below senior management have a genuine desire to perform well, work-life balance is OK depending on who you work for, pay is at market if you are willing to kick and scream to get what you want. Work out of San Jose and you get free breakfast, unlimited snacks, fruit, sodas, juices, bagels, muffins, cereals, two k-cup machines with dozens of coffee, cappuccino, and cocoa flavors, tons of creamer flavors. Work from San Jose and come into the office anytime you want; SJ staff begins arriving ~10:30 am.

Cons

Phoenix, where headquarters is located and vast majority of employees, employees treated like second class citizens. Coffee available in Phoenix breakrooms (one flavor, not good), powdered creamer. Six months ago, they took away the plastic forks and spoons from the break rooms in Phoenix under the guise of cost-cutting. Now you have to bring your own utensils or "steal" them from the cafeteria, which is frowned upon. Ask if San Jose lost any of their perks (spoiler alert: the answer is no). Outside of the food and flexibility perks in SJ, the great IT talent has been streaming out of this place over the past six months. The top architects, developers, system engineers, security engineers, and line managers have left for greener pastures over the past year. IT staff tired of the constant re-orgs and downsizing. Promotions are based on little more than how well you can spin how poorly your team is actually performing, and this is all the way up to the CTO level. Such a shame as Apollo Phoenix was a great place to work 2-3 years ago.

4.0
Aug 8, 2013
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Pros

Fantastic learning environment, was supportive, great people to work with. I was really happy there for a very long time - until about the last 6 months.

Cons

Terrible pay (probably $20k less than at other companies), not much room for advancement, and crazy hours. Once Mike Sajor came on as head of Apollo Tech, things fell spectacularly apart. He is clueless to SDLC - coming from apparel industry had no idea of how software development works. Then they fired a lot of great people. Morale took a major nosedive after that.

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