- Low pay. I worked for over a year and only received a 40 cent increase which feels like bare minimum. Biggest reason to leave is due to pay, you can just switch companies for better pay.
- Terrible hours. Most of the time I was here I worked less than 20 hours a week on top of the low hourly wage its hard to manage your life. When I was schedule 30 hours a week it was great and I made decent money for the job but that didn't last long and the company never gave me another client.
- Horrendous communication. The company expects you to reply right away to emails but the moment you need something from them its difficult to get answers. Contacting higher ups you need to fill out forms that are hard to find. Working at this company feels very bureaucratic and lacks any human warmth. Company will make huge changes with little notice. They always tell you to contact BCBA supervisor when things happen but mine took forever to reply and never answered the phone.
- Other issues stem from the industry itself not necessarily the company. For example, they care way more about the data collection and graphs above all. They keep adding goals and trials that arent really meaningful but only exist to justify the billable hours for the insurance. The amount of goals and trials they make you do backfire because they start to stress out the kids but on paper and with the graph it looks great to the insurance. The science behind ABA is also outdated, it is based of behaviorism and reduces behaviors to reward/punishment loops while ignoring their cognitive processing or internal experiences which could provide explanations for behaviors.
