Scholastic reviews

--HR is consistently terrible. They don't listen, don't help, and don't defend employees rights even in the most straightforward of ways. --Upper management are famous for their in-fighting. They are more interested in defeating each other than the larger vision of the company. --Bad management at all levels is tolerated even when it is widely known by many divisions, HR, and the CEO. --The Web site and the Web group are completely dysfunctional. It's been rethought, redesigned, reinvented every year for the past ten and continues to be terrible and problematic for many Scholastic brands and businesses. --There is a lot of nepotism, favoritism, different rules for different people. --In recent years, they barely hire. They bring in people on contract to avoid hiring them and cuts have been so deep that work quality has really suffered. Key jobs that are important to a division or group's success are filled by temps who can walk away at any time.

I was a permatemp for too long without option to be hired permanent (a shady practice). There is some bad leadership. Its hard to move up, career-wise. There is in general resistance to change (but maybe its difficult for big corps). Publishing is also in the decline so this is not necessarily the best industry - expect restructuring/layoffs because there were more than 2 instances of it in my less than 3 years there!