content developer

editorial assistant

desktop support technician

director of marketing

project manager

Benchmark Education Company

This is not a serious company. Everything moves on personal relationships, loyalty, and intrigue. The work quality is contingent on personal interests, powers, and compromises, including vendors outside the company, not the actual work. When in a team, the person who is supposed to be in charge is not qualified despite the position that that person is holding, the whole team would be a war of intrigues and frustrations.  People are hurting each other to get ahead. Work's quality and knowledge have no value but "friendships" and proof of loyalty to some. There is mistreatment from upper management, it's well known, but still, it is the slander, the abuse, and need of personal commitments to managers that hurt both the work environment and quality of products. Knowledge is unnecessary but servility and intrigue. Loyalty could even be paid with the hiring of totally unqualified family members that are a joke, while others do the job for them. They don't really care about the work, the quality of what they are giving to students, its just a bluff. The ones that do are shun and obliterated until they are needed to fix the mess. Every time someone new arrives, it is even worse human—in their ability to intrigue and hurt. There are great people, but they are usually the lees valued, the less paid, and the least respected until they need to fix a mess the bunch of unqualified have created.

I am so happy working fully remote here in Spanish Product Development. I love the products being made and the team I am making them with. I have high respect for everyone I work with. I look forward to logging on and learning from my teammates. I also love learning so many new skills in my department and across departments. My boss has my back and I know she will support me in anything. We are both parents, and she helps take care of me so I can take care of my family. This job allows me to be healthier, more relaxed, and have work life balance while still doing interesting, meaningful work. Everyone works hard and presumes the best positive intent about those we work with. We have great technical tools and tech support at our disposal. When I did once experience unprofessional conduct from someone higher up, it was swiftly dealt with by my senior, boss, and boss's boss in the most assuring way possible. Also, now that I bought myself an adjustable standing desk, my body is more comfortable working remote-- the physical discomfort was the hardest part at first. 

Benchmark has made important-much-needed pivotal changes in the company culture & incentives the past year. For instance, most of the employees are able to work from home 2x a week now, post Covid, 
The owners are very nice people &their hearts are in the right place. Benchmark is experiencing huge growth right now, while other Education Publishing companies are laying off. I consider myself lucky to be here, as we are like a big family, and we truly care about eachother. This past winter, they announced a 25% match in our 401k, plus an additional  bonus to all employees, PLUS a $500 stocking stuffer to say "thank you" for all our hard work. There's a lot of GOOD things happening in this company, and I wanted to write about it all....because most people come on these kinds of sites to trash their employers once they get fired. LOL. It's gotten very good here and I'm not going anywhere soon. I'm happy.

Constant berating from upper management / owners, no job security, growth and raises. Annual reviews are non-existent and low pay. Soulless HR that is willing to fire at-all for no reasons at all. Hard working employees constantly and often get yelled at by owners. 

TREAT YOUR EMPLOYEES AS HUMAN AND DO THE RIGHT THING.
Give them annual performance reviews so people can grow within the company, provide mentorship or career advancement courses.
Acknowledge employees that has been loyal to the company and take some anger management classes!

I worked here over 10 years ago and its not an easy place to work.  Nonetheless, you get to wear many hats and grow career wise.  Salary and benefits are a mixed bag.  Conduct of one of the owners is down right deplorable which borders on the stuff lawsuits are made of.  Fortunately my contact with this person was not too regular and there were times we actually got along.  However those who she interacted with regularly were under a lot of pressure.  Many of my colleagues were cool people to work for.  The business systems were reasonable.  If management could get it together and treat all employees with respect this company would really go places.  As it stands it frequently shoots itself in the foot.

A good place to gain valuable experience and great teamwork but there is no room for job growth. If you're looking for advancement, to get treated fairly and decent pay, this is not the place for you. Also, upper management tend to try to force demands upon employees and have no intentions to care about the employee's well being. They also favor certain individuals for promotions, etc but only offer to them and forget about everyone else who had worked hard to fulfill the company's needs and wants. This company does not care about bonuses, incentives, and yearly reviews as this is non-existent. 

I have found a wonderful team of people always ready to help. My manager and my teammates have been always friendly and supportive. I do not feel afraid to ask or to learn new things. The people in other areas of the company have been kind and welcoming.  I feel at ease, and I think that is the most important part of any job.
It has been rewarding to see how each project takes shape and comes to an end. There is a lot of work, but that also make me feel that my work is really needed and important. I have been able to learn about the company and about the editorial process. This has been a great exprerience from a professional point of view. 

No day was ever typical. Days might involve writing technical or children's material to publish; or traveling across country to work a sales conference; or present a week-long training about teaching methods using our material. I learned to think on my feet and work in a fast-paced environment because we were creating new product to get to the sales force. My co-workers worked as hard as I did and we all took critical review of each other's work in order to improve the product. We became such a great team that we could almost complete one another's thoughts. The hardest part of the job was the travel. The most enjoyable part of the job was my team of colleagues.

Typically, I spent the day coding features and pair-programming. This was, to me, the best part of the job as I enjoy being able to create products individually and collaboratively. I was able to learn PHP through my team and through my knowledgable and approachable manager. However, albeit fostering a very productive environment, the workplace culture was not progressive and did not allow me to build lasting relationships with my team outside the workplace.

I worked as a nighttime employee for Benchmark Education Company as a non traditional Data entry clerk. The company didn't provide me the proper job training to perform the tasks that I needed to perform and then I was laid off and release.One of the Managers  has a thick Spanish accent it was hard to decipher want he was trying to say in English. I honestly felt that I wasn't given a chance to improve or excel after I was laid off but oh well it happens.

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