Don't look behind the curtain - Director of Marketing Scholastic Employee Review

2.0
Feb 12, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

*Scholastic has a great reputation to its customers and the reading public *They provide good literature at very low prices through their book clubs *If you think about the ultimate user of the product, you feel good about what you are doing *Good benefits

Cons

*I found very few people who actually enjoyed their jobs there *The morale is very low, and you feel like there is a black cloud hovering overhead *The company suffers from mismanagement starting at the very top, and the upper level management seems to be engaged in too much internal politicking and maneuvering *The pay isn't worth the agita

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