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Sylvan Learning Centers reviews

3.6

68% would recommend to a friend

(1,260 total reviews)

John McAuliffe

75% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Sylvan Learning Centers has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 1,260 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sylvan Learning Centers 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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1K reviews
1.0
May 2, 2014

Exploitation at its finest

Recommend
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Pros

The con here is that it is really quite refreshing and fun (for teachers) to work with students on such an intimate and small group basis. This is the only pro of working for this organization. I am pretty sure the majority of the "glowing reviews" on this board are from insiders who have been incentivized to write them.

Cons

Whoever thought up this business concept was pretty ingenious; I'll give them that. Take one "pro" (the above mentioned) and turn this into a way of sucking gullible, giving, nice, underemployed, well educated people into working for $13/ hour after they have spent thousands of dollars on an education and professional certifications. In exchange, you get a crappy sporadic work schedule, no respect from management and/ or the owner (who, incidentally, is the only person making money off this arrangement), overbooked nights and weekends and enough bitterness to last for months depending on how long it takes you to realize that you, teacher, are a great big sucker with a capital "S" who exists to build your owner's retirement plan.

3.0
Apr 29, 2014

Inconsistent and no follow through

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Families and students were great, Has the potential to be a fun place to work.

Cons

Franchise was unorganized and had no follow through. Bottom line was the most important thing. No life/work balance. No regards to commitments made.

2.0
Apr 28, 2014

Not worth the headache

Recommend
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Pros

Somewhat flexible schedules, ability to move up quickly within the company, coworkers who really care about the kids

Cons

Disorganized management; treating education as a business instead of a way to really help kids; dishonest owners; horrible pay for what they charge families - even for licensed teachers; last-minute schedule changes and scrambling to "fill in the blanks"

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