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      3.6

      65% would recommend to a friend

      (2,587 total reviews)

      Andrew S. Rosen

      76% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

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      Kaplan has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,587 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kaplan 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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      3K reviews
      1.0
      Jul 21, 2011

      A new day, another reorganization

      Business analyst
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The office in NYC is in the West Village and is very nice.

      Cons

      Every month there is a new initiative to reorganize the company. This translates to a mass exit of knowledgeable, compentent people, which affects projects negatively. You never know if the project team you met with last week will be the same team for this week. Many long-term employees are just not competent. People that never leave the safety of their employer since college do not get to be 'well-rounded' because they never experience the real world. They survive continual reogranizations because they are reliable, not because they are good at what they do. Their system structure is a mess, outdated and unreliable. The pay scale is low and so out of touch with the rest of the business world.

      1.0
      Jan 5, 2010

      great image, bad reality

      Product developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It is a recognizable name/ brand, since they advertise so much everywhere.

      Cons

      Would give me projects that were impossible to complete. Didn't listen to my objections/ attempts to explain why more time was needed. Got incredibly burnt out then left.

      1.0
      Jun 13, 2009

      Like working at McDonald's.

      Systems administrator
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      One of the best things about working at Kaplan is the location. You're right around Columbus Circle near the edge of Central Park. It's very beautiful in the warmer months. You know there is a problem when this rates as one of the BEST reasons to work at an employer.

      Cons

      This place will suck the life out of you. As a "System Engineer" you will do weekly code pushes for the development along with putting out fires. They call it System Engineering, but really its more like Operations. It's the most mind-numbing work I've ever had. The management there is shady. During the tech downturn in the early 2000s they increased the work hours from 9-5 to 9-7. I guess they figured that if you didn't like it, you would leave on your own and they wouldn't have to give you any severance pay. The hours were scaled back to 9-6 about 8 months later and remain there. The environment is a joke. It is full of decaying hardware and software. Many "Mission Critical" applications are on Solaris 2.5.1. I recently had to build a copy of one of these machines and found it funny that I was applying Y2K patches in 2006. Other than the Solaris 2.5.1 machines you have mostly a Linux environment where fires are a daily thing. You can easily spend 3 days a week doing nothing but putting out fires. No one has any time to re-architect the environment so that the fires don't happen in the first place.

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