I wouldn't recommend to a friend - Anonymous employee Chamberlain Group Employee Review

2.0
Aug 29, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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Pros

Chamberlain is a highly variable place to work. Everything depends on what team you are working on. Some teams will have managers who will fight for you and help build you up, others not so much. I have more or less grown up with the company and have seen it go from being owned by a private family to being owned by Blackstone and all between. Every year I ask myself, "is this the year I leave". My answer is usually no, as where else will be better when I am at least in a good position? Summer fridays are pretty great though.

Cons

Yearly reorgs are a constant drag. Some of the most CG-blooded people I have ever known are somehow always the first to get sent to the wood chipper. People flail around and react. There is no forward thought. Just constant reaction to whatever words the executive population utters. We have been 'transforming' for the near decade I have worked here. But what are we even transforming to? All I have seen is us transforming into yet another soulless company. Benefits have been getting crushed. My wonderful and amazing 401k service contribution was ripped away and replaced with a far less beneficial amount. If you aren't on a good team, or have a good manager, your chance for advancement will be near impossible. Constant 'do more with less'

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