Pros
The pay is what you might expect for a company focused solely on sales; average to slightly above average. There are still some professional, quality minded employees who work at AP. On a daily basis they do their best to serve their university and their students to the highest quality standards; however, these employees are fewer and far between as many have chosen to leave while many more continue to be fired.
Cons
Hostile work environment, disdain for quality employees, lack of innovative thinking, and management who manage by fear, intimidation, and coercion. One reviewer wrote employees are let go due to poor performance. Don't believe it. Turnover is high because of the hostile work environment created and enforced by all levels of management. It starts at the very top with Mr. Best and trickles all the way down through his yes-men rank and file. It has corroded this company to the core, yet, questionable personnel decidedly claw their way into management positions, conspiring with senior personnel for personal gain. Character assassination and sabotage of peers have become the status quo. Daily occurrences include misrepresentation, gossip, and innuendo. Exceptional employees are adversely labeled and then fired. Remaining personnel hear stories from Senior Management that their colleague(s) resigned, when in actuality they were forced out. Why? For what purpose? It is inexplicable, as management never holds itself accountable to anyone, for anything. They take no responsibility for their illogical and reactive decisions, they ignore the toxic reality they've created, and they refuse to listen to the truth from employees who still care. Care about an innovative, proactive work environment? Keep looking because you won't find it here. The only innovation at AP is the creative gloss-over of empty sales promises pitched to attract new university clients. Antiquated telemarketing tactics, dialing a student multiple times per day; these are acts of desperation, not innovation, and are tantamount to harassment. You won't have to dig deep, just look carefully below the surface to realize that the risk of associating with AP is born by the employee and the university client. Personnel who speak up about these concerns, out of concerns for sub-par student and university representation, out of concerns for colleagues, and those who do not tow the party line, put a target on their back and are at risk of being the next employee kicked to the curb. The deceitful business practices and the sadistic, cutthroat culture of this company are deplorable. Morale has hit rock bottom. It is an absolute shame what AP has become. For your piece of mind, if you care about the quality of your work, if you care about your client and about your professional reputation, than do not join the downtrodden ranks of AP.
