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Huntington Learning Centers reviews

3.5

56% would recommend to a friend

(1,292 total reviews)

Eileen Huntington

51% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Huntington Learning Centers has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,292 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Huntington Learning Centers 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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1K reviews
2.0
Jul 31, 2014

True Educators....beware!!!

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Pros

You get to work with students who really need your help. You can develop your staff and really help budding new teachers reach their potential. You learn a new set of administrative skills that you wouldn't learn from anywhere else. Decent benefits after a 90 day probation period.

Cons

The hours are absolutely horrible. As administration, you are a salaried employee and should only be working 40 hours per week. I was working anywhere from 40-80 hours per week. 12-14 hour days, a center with no administrative support except for me, and no compensation for the extra hours you work. For what they have the audacity to charge their students for tutition, they could spend a bit more on pay increases for full time, and part time, staff. The turnover is high and the upper management sits back and does/says nothing.

1.0
Jun 9, 2014

Dog eat dog environment

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Teachers are very nice and helpful. The pay is very low so the teachers who are there are there for the right reasons

Cons

Both Company and Franchise Centers need to learn how to value their employees. Especially in the "Franchise World"...It is your full-time staff that make you all the money!! Stop treating them like cash cows. In the time I have been with Huntington, I have seen Centers run properly with excellent management. Unfortunately, they are few and far between. The majority of Franchise centers are run by people who have NO experience in education and only care about the bottom line. If you can just work for the numbers and put your feeling for the students and families that you are working with aside this is a great job for you. If not, and you care about those students overall well-being, stay away! You will be morally compromised and leave with a bitter taste!

3.0
Oct 7, 2013

Legal Work Practices?

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Pros

Friendly and helpful coworkers In theory, it is nice that Huntington aims to teach not just to the test (SAT, ACT) but to teach the skills and material necessary to do well on the test

Cons

Some shady practices - asking tutors to come in up to an hour early and stay late to finish paperwork, but you can only clock in 5 minutes before your shift and must clock out 5 minutes after your scheduled shifts ends; Also not paying for the hours completed in training until 3 months after you've been working at the center... Really poor materials. Full of typos, unclear explanations (unclear even for college grads, much less high school students struggling with the test) Low salary compared to similar positions (and you're not allowed to speak to parents at all, maybe for fear that the parents will realize that only a tiny portion of their thousands of dollars are going to tutors?)

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Huntington Learning Centers Response
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This former employee, who is a recent college grad and was to receive training for educational tutoring at Huntington, completed a telephone interview where among other things, hourly rates and policies were disclosed and discussed for mutual acceptability. Based on the phone interview, the employee was invited for an in-person interview. This employee was afforded an extensive in-person interview to determine suitability for the learning center teaching environment. All personnel policies were again clearly explained and hourly rates were confirmed. This employee was offered a position, and chose to accept! We were surprised that this employee quit abruptly after 12 hours of training and no independent teaching time, without speaking to the supervisor to discuss and clarify any information that was a concern, such as the perceived “unpaid time” and coming in early/staying late.” This was later clarified in an exit interview by phone with the employee, who acknowledged they should have spoken with the supervisor before rushing to judgment and quitting. As it turns out, the employee felt uncomfortable with, and therefore unsuited for, this type of teaching environment, regardless of rates, or typos and explanations in the teaching materials. Learning center teaching environments are certainly not for everyone. We live in a free market economy and one has the freedom of choice to take one’s labor and find the best opportunity. Learning Centers have certain labor rates they can afford to pay and these may not suitable for everyone.
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