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3.5

40% would recommend to a friend

(185 total reviews)

Katya Bozzi

29% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

STAR Education has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 185 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The STAR 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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185 reviews
2.0
Jan 6, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

helping children and a part time schedule

Cons

Do not receive raises and there isn't any real upward mobility. The CEO and CFO are every insulting when talking to staff. Not to mention the classroom management trainer is very rude and treats us all like children. The CFO and CEO want more and more from staff without any incentive. While the CEO's son and daughter make $100,000 and year and they barely doanything. Most people leave with in the 1st 2 years of work because of the unfair practices.

1.0
Jan 16, 2013

Get paid for a while and then leave.

Recommend
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Pros

*Health benefits are good *Work on very interesting, strange projects. *Meet a lot of youthful, interesting people (very high turnaround) *Very high schedule flexibility (you can stay home whenever you need without pay, which is great if you have a kid who is often sick)

Cons

*You will be paid very little and never get a raise (in the last 4 years, there have been no raises. I know employees who have been here for 8 years with no raise). *You will be required to volunteer to work without pay so many hours per year. *You will be required to attend mandatory training where people do little more than talk about their childhood and bask in uncomfortable silences. This is not a joke, or an exaggeration. *You can be fired on a whim. This has happened in the past and continues to happen. *Employees have been verbally bashed by management after they've quit/left. THIS IS ILLEGAL. *Interruptions are common. The preferred method of getting ahold of someone is to scream their name at the top of your lungs until they come to your cube. If they aren't in the building, continue yelling - regardless of other people working. *Nepotism is rampant. I cannot go into detail without breaking glassdoor's terms of service. *Management sees you as expendable. In fact, the preferred method of motivation is: "We love our teachers. We love you so much, and you love us! But if you make even one tiny mistake, we'll fire you! We've done it before - we've fired teachers who we were really married to! And let me tell you something - if a kid says you did anything wrong - even if you didn't! - we'll fire you! We can't have that, and I'm sorry, you're gone." *Incompetence is rampant. People do not rise through the ranks because they're skillful. Expect to spend a lot of time picking up other people's messes. *Expect to not get paid, to get paid the wrong rate, or to 'lose hours' on your timesheet. Accounting also will never apologize, and will not answer more than one question per email. Nor will they pay any attention to your puny 'spelling' or 'grammar,' and any issues you have will get lost in translation. *There is very, very little parking at HQ. Try to spend most of your time on site. *The company shuts down and does not pay employees over winter break. You will have to use your vacation time for that. *If you are a teacher during the summer, you will be asked to work more than twice as many hours for half pay. And it's much, much more difficult. *There are so, SO many more reasons for you to not work here, each one more impossible than the last. I cannot list them all.

2.0
Jan 28, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The kids are great, and its a really rewarding job. The program itself is awesome and the kids all enjoy it. Most of the employees are all very nice and cool.

Cons

Extremely disorganized. Will make you teach classes you know nothing about, give zero direction and zero resources. I started as a sub (mistake) which meant I would get calls literally an hour before a school needed me, for subjects I was by no means qualified to teach. Certain people in STAR HQ building are extremely, extremely rude. I now understand why the turnover rate is so high.

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