DeVry University reviews

Downsides are that the pay is low for the amount of work required. A common line used amongst student workers is "full-time work for part-time pay." Which brings me to the 20 hours. While working a full 20 hours a week is optional working over that amount is prohibited unless classes are out for winter or summer break. I guess this is in place so that students can put more emphasis on their class work but I think students should be given the opportunity to work more then that if they wanted to, either that or raise the pay. $8.00/hr or $320 every two weeks (if your work the full 20/hrs) is pretty ridiculous when you have to factor in that students are on their own for transportation to and from school - this includes metro - which is costly in itself, then we're on our own for parking - $45.00 a month or $17.00 a day - and many students that are in housing have to work multiple jobs in addition to working at Devry just to make ends meet. While we do get "raises" I hardly call a quarter every year a raise. Yeah, I know its temporary we're just their to work until we graduate but I don't think anyone takes into consideration how much gets done at that campus thanks to student workers. We get no benefits, if a work day falls on a holiday or a day that school is closed, we don't get paid for that day, which wouldn't be such a bummer if we didn't get paid hardly anything in the first place. If I didn't need the money and if the economy were not in such a state that I could move on to something better I would have left a long time ago.

If you are trusting enough to join this colony of clones, you will soon discover how the company demands that all of their employees do the administrative work for free, even the sales staff, by making them fill out time-consuming daily, weekly and bi-weekly reports, attend constant meetings and and endless conference calls and do every bit of the paperwork to process a student while still demanding a high sales quota. Yet they have more administrative staff than any company I have ever seen. This company takes micromanagement to the next level to the extent that I renamed it nanomanagement. You can't even take lunch break (a practice they loathe and try to browbeat admissions representatives into foregoing entirely) without them interrupting your lunch by calling on your cell phone or coming in your office area to demand something. They brow beat their employees into doing what the company wants and are so paranoid about compliance one is fearful to say or do anything without fear of reprimand or more monitoring. I got a one-hour report and reprimand for closing the sale because I didn't do every little detail of their scripted presentation. Between their incessant conference calls and meetings and computer reporting, there isn't enough time to do the job! I met not ONE happy employee while I was there. Long faces and frustration prevail because they make the simplest task so complicated and aggravating that even they are confused with their own methodology. I even got complaints from students about how aggravating and frustrating it is to work with these people. Unless you enjoy being told you don't have the right to think or express yourself and you are prepared to fight the system for the pay raise they promise, I wouldn't waste your time signing on with these people. They are inundated completely and blinded entirely by their own senseless system. They drone on for hours and hours about how proud they are of their customer service when in fact they annoy the students, i. e. the paying customer, as much as the employees! I had several complaints from students about how aggravated and annoyed they were with the admissions process. The only thing you wonder as you drag yourself through this educational Jonestown is when they will be passing out the Kool-Aid so you can find your what seems like your only way out!!!