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Vista Higher Learning

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1.0
18 Jun 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Many coworkers are wonderful, intelligent, hardworking people. - Pay and benefits are good relative to other similar publishers. - You have the chance to work on a variety of things and build a variety of skills because there's plenty of work to go around. - You could have the opportunity to solidify your knowledge by training your future replacement who will work for the company's 'preferred vendor' in Colombia. - You'll learn to recognize when a worker is being set up to fail or queued for termination. - You could become the next favorite. - You won't be troubled with office announcements about coworkers being fired, I mean, pursuing opportunities elsewhere, or leaving the company or any other such negativity because VHL is a positive place to work. - You're more likely to have your position eliminated than be outright fired. - The newest iteration of HR also appears to be making efforts to address the office morale (which is so abysmal you could go spelunking in it (don't worry, spelunking is good. It's a perk, like office ping-pong or something)) after receiving comments related to, among other things, the latest wave of badly explained or (more often) unexplained firings, and after constantly needing to explain away glass door each time its asked about in interviews (a tedious task). I believe their efforts have gotten as far as recruiting middle management to contribute some less negative reviews. While that is further than previous iteration's efforts have gone to address the challenges of a growing business, knowing upper management, that's likely as far as their efforts can go.

Cons

There are none that come to mind.

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5.0
25 May 2025
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CEO approval
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Pros

Working in this company has been both challenging and rewarding. Not only do I continuously learn and grow, but I also get to contribute to making education more accessible and convenient—especially for students who lack the means to pursue formal schooling or live in remote areas. My work here feels purposeful, and I’m proud to be part of a team that leverages advanced technology to create a positive impact

Cons

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2.0
20 Sept 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are plenty of benefits that employees actually enjoy. The commuter pass and parking program, weekly catered lunches, fitness reimbursement, and the training and other development opportunities.

Cons

The CEO and his management were so focused on making profits, forgetting about balance, the real vision, and company priorities. The current problems were blatantly ignored while taking advantage of employees, neglecting our well being, losing the work-life balanced we were promised! The outcome was overworked, stressed, and unhappy employees who felt frustrated at work which also affected performance in a terrible way! Instead of actually talking about the decline in performance and resolving the real problem, we were blamed for it and even pressured to perform better! If one would suggest decreasing our load, management would take that against you and accuse you of being incompetent! The CEO being obsessed with getting higher results, will immediately fire anyone who's underperforming and couldn't qualify their insane standards! Fear is the thing that drives people to keep on no matter how exhausting work gets from the continuous increase of workload, no matter how unreasonable it is. No one wants to get fired just like that, without any back up plan. The job is enjoyable, coworkers were great, and students were a joy to teach. It's just the leadership that makes this company terrible!

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