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      Elevate K-12

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      Elevate K-12 reviews

      4.0

      71% would recommend to a friend

      (467 total reviews)
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      Piyush Lumba

      71% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

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      Elevate K-12 has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 467 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Elevate K-12 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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      467 reviews
      1.0
      Jan 17, 2023

      I wish I could give 0 stars

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      They hire really great people - I made a lot of friends

      Cons

      They do not care about their employees, teachers, or students. They only care about money - profits over people. Unrealistic quotas were set quarter after quarter with only a small percentage of AEs meeting their goals. This was absolutely no reflection on the skills of the AEs as deals were being funneled to a select few who were absolutely overwhelmed with deals and the rest of the AEs were left to twiddle their thumbs and work with their embarrassingly small pipelines. With the obnoxiously high quotas, came desperation. The sales leadership and CEO advocated for hounding prospects in a way that was disrespectful. If you did close a deal, then came the terrible product that screwed the school districts over. The quality of programs being put out are absolutely abysmal. As a former teacher myself, I felt terrible selling a product I knew was going to fail. Programs often had teacher allocation, certification, and subbing issues just to name a few (there are many many more common issues). Another issue I noticed is that curriculum is seriously lacking. Units and lessons lack engagement, creativity, and are just boring. Students usually are just following along with a powerpoint. The icing on the failing product of a cake is that employees are treated terribly. Leadership loves to pick favorites, put them on a pedestal with more opportunities for success, and then talk down to and gaslight the others into thinking they should be producing the same results with drastically less opportunity. It all came to a head the first week of December when Elevate laid off approximately 1/4 of their employees. When explaining why the layoffs were happening, leadership made it very clear that it wasn’t because of the recession, but rather internal mismanagement of money. Lol, that is way worse if you ask me! I’ll leave you with some quotes from leadership during my time at Elevate. “You are all just number signs and if you don’t like it you can leave.” “That demographic just isn’t as successful in sales positions.” -When asked why there aren’t more POC in sales at Elevate “You shouldn’t be enjoying your weekend if you aren’t hitting your quota.” “I don’t care if you’re on vacation, you’re in sales.” P.S. A lot of positive reviews popped up after the lay-offs in December. My guess is that they are fake reviews made to boost their rating on Glassdoor…

      2.0
      Jan 22, 2022

      Shady company hiding behind positive mission

      Account executive
      Recommend
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      Pros

      High Base Pay - starting around $70K A lot of potential for commission if you are around long enough to see it Account Executives and SDRs are fun and enjoy hanging out socially and bonding over difficult, shared experience If the product/service worked the way we say it does, it would be great Good opportunity to connect with school leaders and learn about the state of K-12 education Opportunity to learn a lot about a startup

      Cons

      Like many sales people, I joined Elevate for the mission of helping students. For a few months it seemed like we were actually delivering on this mission, but the company had lofty growth goals that they were not operationally ready for. Sadly, as a result, many students ended up having a WORSE classroom experience than if they had a local substitute. ie. Elevate teachers would not even show up for class, we promised certified teachers but would staff subs for months, the tech is very flawed and often malfunctioning. Leadership only cares about bringing in revenue and therefore little to nothing was done to improve these failing programs. Many customers were extremely unhappy and wanted out of their contracts, which the salespeople had no control over yet had to deal with most directly. For this reason, renewal deals are very difficult to get because most districts have negative experiences with the product delivery and do not want to continue. Multiple times Elevate was unable to pay commission on time. And salespeople often had to wait over 6+ months to see commission paid out after deals closed. Leadership often used fear tactics to "motivate" salespeople to close deals without offering any strategic support.

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      Elevate K-12 Response
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      Thanks for taking the time to share your experience! Our mission has always been geared towards providing exceptional education to underprivileged areas. We can confidently say that our program provides stellar education to students and we value the experiences of both our instructors and students. Educating young minds continues to be our number one priority as we continue to grow as a company we will keep your experiences in mind. We continue to partner with districts to assure that we are providing the services we promised
      1.0
      Mar 27, 2023

      Run far away

      Account executive
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Snacks, huge office that is empty 90% of the time, gym in office.

      Cons

      A lot of the recent reviews are extremely accurate but I would like to share some current up to date information on Elevate K12. Since I have started, we have had three title changes. Sales development representative, educational consultant and partnership associate. They promote individuals on the team based on favorability and solely on the fact of when they need someone in a new position. The company will keep things behind the curtains until they are ready to release information and when it is favorable for them to do so. We are constantly being told to “stay hungry” and to make sure we hit our quotas., Since I have started, over a year ago, we have had three professional development days called, “Closing Camp”. Here we watch the same YouTube video each time and take notes on key points. If you are looking to learn new things and grow as a sales professional, Elevate is the last place you should choice. As for the account executive side, they give extremely false OTE numbers. Please reach out to current account executives on LinkedIn about their accurate OTE numbers. Commission comes when the school districts pay and many schools have not paid and refuse to do so. All of the account executives are missing commission and still waiting on large paychecks. If you are joining as an AE, please know that you will not have anyone to directly report to. Please read all recent negative reviews before you even consider Elevate K-12.

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