SAGA Education reviews

3.6

60% would recommend to a friend

(240 total reviews)
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Alan Safran

63% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

SAGA Education has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 240 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The SAGA Education 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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240 reviews
3.0
Nov 2, 2017
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Pros

Students are amazing to work with, resources are very effective with regard to curriculum, and if you are truly passionate about this type of work (if your heart is really invested) you will be in a position to have an extremely rewarding experience. Also this is an extremely heavy feedback culture so if you appreciate constant feedback both positive and critical, it can be an opportunity for growth.

Cons

Very disorganized as a company, salary/stipend is extremely low for fellows (as it is marketed as a gap year) where there is a large disparity for the next position salary (at least a $30k difference) when the real work with the students is done by the tutoring fellows. There tends to be a white savior complex with a lot of the staff of the organization and the fellows that are hired which has proven to be detrimental in some situations.

1.0
Sep 21, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The students. Some of them were tough to work with but the ones who worked hard, it was awesome to see their progress. I met some awesome people (other tutors)

Cons

-the pay. The problem isn't the number. You know what it is going into it. It's the fact that for the work they expect from you, it's basically slave labor. You're getting barely minimum wage to work like a dog. If you're gonna make the pay that little, the job shouldn't be that demanding. -curriculum team. Incompetent. Stresses feedback but can't take it. The material they gave were full of mistakes. ended up making up our own material on our own time. -concerns. Like mentioned before, the importance of feedback was always brought up but upper management didn't like to take it. Our questions or concerns were either ignored or addressed with an attitude. -upper management. It's very obvious they couldn't care less about their employees or the students. When they came to visit they never said hello. They just walked around like they were too good to speak to us even though we carry their company. When they did open their mouths, they spoke to us like lowly children. Their Unprofessionalism is on another level from favoritism, to pettiness, and gossiping about one schools team to another. -high turnover. Almost half of my team quit before the end of the year because of how awful this place was. It sucks because the students suffered and we lost some good tutors who were burnt out. -unrealistic expectations. A lot of these students come to us on a 4th-6th grade level. Yet we're expected to teach them common core algebra. It's not impossible but we shouldn't be punished for not performing miracles

1.0
Feb 9, 2022

Horrible expereince

Recommend
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Pros

Only pro is the relationships you build with students and maybe some co-workers.

Cons

Avoid at all costs, complete waste of time. Saga suffers from severe white savior complex and micromanagement.

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