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Higher Ground Education

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Truly terrible company and leader - Anonymous employee Higher Ground Education Employee Review

1.0
Jun 27, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent pay for a start-up. But there's no real revenue source yet besides investors, so once we stop receiving funding from objectivists and parents, the company will fold.

Cons

As a current employee of HG, I can't begin to describe how terrible my coworkers are. Yes, it is a start-up which in the business world sounds pretty cool. But we're constantly on the brink of failure. My team constantly puts all of our faith in the hands of a terrible leader - our CEO. Our CEO is the most arrogant man I've ever met. He guided me "foolishly" away from a good job only to slowly go down in a sinking ship with Higher Ground. He thinks he's the most educated man on Montessori education, but really all he does is talk about how objectivism is the greatest. Please do your research on objectivism. This company will do its best to sway you into their cult. Because I'm one of the founding members of HG, our policy is to debunk these type of reviews as quickly as possible. It won't be surprising to receive a response saying that future employees should do their research and ask questions. It won't be surprising to hear their response by saying all their current members are happy - but I AM NOT! I'm collecting my salary until the money runs dry, which is any week. So I urge you to do research. Research objectivism and how it relates to Higher Ground. And ask questions. Ask where our funding is coming from, and how much time we have until it runs out. I'm already trying to find a new job. Bottomline is this, do your research but do NOT work here. It is really terrible.

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Higher Ground Education Response
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We wholeheartedly support the intent of Glassdoor, which is to allow actual current or former employees to anonymously submit feedback about their professional experience working at Higher Ground. False reviews compromise this admirable purpose, so our team is disappointed to see someone who has never worked at Higher Ground pretending to give feedback. We know this person doesn’t work for Higher Ground because we have seen a similar statement posted by a few individuals who are not and have not been employed by Higher Ground on another (non-anonymous) forum. We suspect that this small group has a personal vendetta and that they are fraudulently using Glassdoor and other platforms for defamatory purposes. We encourage you to independently judge this review and the extent to which Higher Ground's culture truly is what we all claim, and whether it is plausible that someone so disgruntled with the entire team (as this reviewer claims to be) could be engaged in such wholesale faking of enthusiasm on a day to day basis with our small team. We understand that not everyone agrees with our vision, or wishes to join us or support us. That's ok. We're here trying to do great work in service of a mission we believe in, and we’re eager to bring on the many, many fellow travelers who do agree. Please consult with us during your interview process if you have follow-up questions or concerns, or if you want specific detail on how we are inferring the source of these fallacious reviews.

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