Chamberlain Group reviews

3.3

54% would recommend to a friend

(462 total reviews)
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Jeff Meredith

61% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Chamberlain Group has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 462 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Chamberlain Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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462 reviews
2.0
Sep 9, 2015

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Pros

Compensation and benefits were very good. Work is challenging and it is a fast paced company that has a lot of growth potential. Many associates are creative with the ability to think out of the box when needed to either troubleshoot problems or to keep future initiatives on course. Good company to start off a career with to get an introduction into chaotic corporate culture while learning and gaining good experience, but leaving with an appreciation that it is not a healthy environment. Life lesson for future endeavors.

Cons

Management is self-serving. The Executive Leadership Team comes across as always having agendas that conflict within the Internal Business Units and it is about individual goals and objectives. Not entirely focused on the Company. Concept of agreement even with disagreement once the doors are open is not practiced. Most Executives bring back personal opinions to their direct associates that get skewed during the flow down of information. The CEO has many times demonstrated his superiority in passive aggressive mannerisms and sarcastic comments. His disdain for members of his staff is visible and it affects the moral of the ELT members and those same mannerisms have become adopted throughout the company making it a very uncomfortable environment to work in. Lower level associates that actually produce the work that makes Chamberlain successful are not treated fairly. To get ahead and thrive at Chamberlain one must be tough and be able to adapt to a toxic environment where one might have to willingly go against their principles. One can succeed there, but at what cost?

2.0
Aug 29, 2015

I wouldn't recommend to a friend

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Pros

While certain departments/individuals may be overloaded, overall work-life balance is good, judging by the fact that the lot is pretty much empty at 5:15. It's not the kind of place where someone's watching what time walk in or walk out. While there's no flex-time policy per se, I've never had any issues when I've had to telecommute for one reason or another. Probably depends on the manager and type of work. Benefits are decent. It's a profitable company, and they're generous with things like company picnic, Christmas lunch, etc. And you get to wear jeans on Friday!

Cons

Cons is a long list: - Employee on-boarding is very weak. If this is your first job out of college, tough luck. - Matrixed environment, yet it's not a large enough company to warrant this type of structure. Top heavy. Tension among matrixed individuals. - Leadership quality is mixed. Some great leaders, but a number who are highly ineffective (too tactical, green, etc). - Sales and engineering driven organization. Marketing is really just project management of pushing out features. If you are mechanically inclined but not science-y enough to become an Engineer, like marketing but don't possess any classical marketing skills, they have a marketing job for you! - Culture stuck in the 90s. The all gray, natural-light free 5 feet tall walled cube world should be heeded as a warning sign of the equally passé culture contained within. It's quiet, serious, and decidedly un-hip. Old-fashioned career progression approach ("gotta be in the role X years no matter how effective you are" type of thinking) - Morale is generally low; I would easily bet that 50% of my close colleagues are not happy, either actively looking, or sticking with it for the bennies, or because like me they're the primary bread winner with a stay at home wife and kids.

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