StrongMind Reviews

Huge turnover. Instead of trying to fix issues raised by people leaving the company, they will blame the employees leaving and typically trash talk previous employees. Constantly changing management. HR does nothing with complaints, even of a serious nature. Raises are low or non-existent, even when you get a glowing review from your manager. Company changes its name every couple of years, so make sure to look back on previous reviews posted under Flipswitch. A highlight I remember fondly: after raises were cut and we were told it was because we weren't doing as well as hoped, the CEO drove a new, extremely expensive sports car into work the few days he came in that week. That's not exactly great for morale. No direction: while I was there, we constantly changed direction, often moving at the whims of upper management rather than actually doing market research and focusing on what could bring true value. If the sales team heard about an idea that wasn't even close to being implemented, they would make sales based on promises that we would have those products or features built. Pure chaos. StrongMind only seems to be alive because of the too relaxed laws for online charter schools. If those laws are ever tightened up and enforced, this company will not make it.

Imagine, if you would, a group of inexperienced executives pouring gas on their own heads, lighting it on fire and then running around trying to blame everybody else for their hair being on fire. Literally every week people are quitting or getting fired. It is a small company - this is a big deal. And you, most the time, don't know they were let go until you try to slack them and see their account has been deactivated. Even though, right now, the pandemic is back in full swing the exec team is doing everything they can to strong arm people back into the office. Everything the execs say is the opposite of what they do. It is tragic because you REALLY want to work here so you can better the education business but, you'll soon realize there is a reason it is so awful and this company is a prime example of that. The *ONLY* reason this company stays afloat is because Primavera Online High School is owned by the same person who owns StrongMind and they get paid enormous amounts of money from Pohs -- which is basically a sham of getting paid by the state, with a couple extra steps. Nobody is happy. Like, seriously - nobody. You are widget here - not a human being.