Scholastic reviews

3.4

41% would recommend to a friend

(1,174 total reviews)
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44% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Scholastic has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,174 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Scholastic employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Sep 1, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The formal work/life balance programs, in-house medical facility, paid time off, 3-mo paid maternity leave, stock options for employees, discounts on Scholastic store items, corporate building meeting spaces have great facilities, SoHo cafeteria is nice and the food is good and decently priced, most people are friendly and cooperative. And the pay is competitive and fair.

Cons

Management in some divisions is dysfunctional. Executives are intrusive, untrusting, and can be verbally abusive to staff and higher-level managers. There is a recurrent decision to cut project development timelines to meet demands from customers that are stoked by the sales teams, who make promises the company can't meet based on bad or hasty information given to sales. Inter-departmental cooperation is often blocked by untrusting managers.

3.0
Aug 24, 2011

Not a place for younger and out of college

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great vacation and time off. Interesting projects, and flexible work environment.

Cons

Very limited (more like no) opportunities for advancement. Pigeonholed into a role. Poor resource-management by upper management, and no proper direction for the company as a whole. Very few people took their roles seriously.

1.0
Aug 1, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The only pro is that I had a job at the time. There is not much else to say on the possitive side of things.

Cons

The managers were completely unprofessional and had no idea how to separate work from personal. The expectations of the consultant were completely random and did not take any variables about the different assigned territories into consideration.

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