project manager

instructional designer

legal assistant

project engineer

instructor

GP Strategies

Very typical modern company that long ago lost sight of what their long term goals are and prioritizes short term shareholder payouts over employee health and well being. Things to expect:
1. Zero On boarding or formalized training about your job. For a company that supposedly specializes in training, none of this filters to employees as new hires are treated with a sink or swim attitude.
2. Excessive and redundant managers. Each project will have no less than 5 project managers assigned to it. While this might be redundant, it does allow multiple people to have the word "manager" int their title and it helps fill up their day with meetings so they appear busy.
3. Blame shifting. GP doesn't specialize in solving problems, they find scapegoats. All meetings will consist of finding someone to blame for a problem that the 5 project managers failed to foresee. You will very quickly learn to speak in ambiguous terms as possible as they will latch on to real talk and hold that person responsible.
4. No self reflection. There will be countless meetings, emails, and discussion surrounding delivering products on time but zero thought about quality. If you attempt process improvement or relay negative feedback, upper management will remove you from meetings and label you a problem.
5. Declining pay. GP doesn't believe in inflation so whatever starting salary you are offered, that will be the salary until they fire you. Any remaining benefits will be slowly milked away.
6. No loyalty. If client deems you are not worthy, they will drop you with no concession towards finding a new role for you in their company.
7. Individualistic culture: Despite not rewarding personnel for hard work, every person still strives to be the next superstar and break through. Instead of trying to solve problems, meetings become trying to push YOUR version of trying to solve the problem. Management will fight to ensure that they have an input in every decision simply to put their brand on things. As a result, poor products are created at a glacial pace.

Al in all, I can't stress what a poor place this is to work. There are some good people but an out of touch management group more concerned with protecting their own self interests is fostering a poor work culture that will soon leave this company irrelevant.

Your days can go from fast-paced to looking for work depending on the projects you work on from day to day. It also depends on the time of year. Most of the time the SMEs start of really excited and give you a "yeah yeah," but then half way through the project they tend to not like something (even after asking specific questions) because the SME didn't communicate their original expected results.

As for management, they are flexible about work/life balance stuff, but they are drones to the corporation and play the corporate politics game. Remember, it's a delicate balance with the saying "the customer is always right." However, the company and management allow the client to push back and get what they want, just to save a client. Even if it means causing unnecessary re-work on the designer or developers end. Another thing management does is keep low performing staff members. While I believe in second and even third chances, someone who continually is a low performer should be let go after they fail to perform better given the third chance. Management doesn't do this. Instead they allow the person to be given more than a dozen chances, but the person never performs any better. As for advancement; if you show an interest in something that is related to your field, but outside your current job, management says "that isn't your job therefore no you cannot get training in that skill."

For the most part my co-workers are great to work with. Like any other company, it takes a little time to get use to each others personalities. We all have a pretty good rapport with one another. We joke, laugh, and have fun all while maintaining professionalism.

The hardest thing about the job is the unrealistic deadlines and hours to complete a project. Goes back to how client expectations are handled.

The most enjoyable part of the job is the fun we have at our office. Things like the Halloween party where everyone dresses up in costume. Another enjoyable part of the job is when a client does recognize your hard work and they let management know and that is shared with the department in the departmental meeting.

This is a training company that does not believe in training their own employees.  Everything must be learned on the fly.  Management does not suffer mistakes well, and if one is made will not provide a second opportunity.  They provide little support and expect the employee to produce with very tight timelines.  The employee is expected to work over 40 hours a week without compensation and is an unwritten, though spoken rule.  

The objectives given to advance were based on getting the right projects to perform the necessary tasks to achieve the objectives.  Management however does not give opportunities to take on these tasks and continually uses the same people to perform the same jobs.  Much like a factory.  Thus, the company provides little opportunity to advance as I had to leave their employ and return to get a promotion which, became just a promotion in name only.

They have good, not great, benefits and compensation was decent.

The people I worked with were exceptional.  GP does a very good job hiring outstanding employees.  I very much enjoyed the people I worked with and the work itself was very exciting and fun.  

I very much enjoyed my work and was very good at it.  GP won projects based on my previous work many times, sometimes years later but I received no "official" recognition, just the accolades of my peers.

Management is not empathetic to the employee however MY supervisor was and I enjoyed working under his direction.

Lastly, upper management has no vision.

As others have said, the new-hire training is minimal. Business units are run as small companies. My business unit had terrible management. Entire management team was built on cronyism, so managers were unqualified and incompetent in their roles. 

Management did not perform proper project analysis and the employees and customers suffered needlessly. Work was always at break-neck speed to meet impossible deadlines. The customer would then be delayed and/or have to cough up more money. The customer loved me and I did nothing but improve the customer's experience with GP, yet I was reprimanded for not being good at snowing the customer. I was basically reprimanded for not knowing when and how to lie to the customer.

As for compensation, the pay was not competitive for my field. When I left GP, my salary increased from $68K to $85K. Benefits are standard but expensive to the employee for such a large company. 

I gave two stars instead of one because I admire the work GP does as a company. Though, as far as I know, maybe all of the work suffers from these same issues. ☹️

My first real video job, I came on as the company was starting up work for GM as a client. 

First year was admittedly weird, but by the time I left after almost 4 years we had set up a pretty good, if barebones, pipeline for e-learning content for dealerships. Ultimately there's not a lot of working for some contract, but it's good when you get it!

Overall, there's two types of people in the corporate side of the company. The bad side is pretty nebulous, never coming to the studio and sometimes rumors of things coming just leave you wondering how this job will keep going. The other side, people who actually help make scripts and things for the videos, are pretty good. They don't know video a whole lot, but they're generally chill even if they sometimes are over your shoulder in production. 

Speaking of, the actual crew of the studio is great. I still meet with them as much as I can. Overall, I don't think it's a bad gig, and hopefully it picks up again after the chip shortage. 

This company was actually a pretty cool place to work. In a typical workday, we worked on a multitude of projects which included elearnings and websites. I learned a lot about the Agile blended environment and new programs like Articulate storyline, inkling, and SharePoint. The people in mid-management were awesome and would usually help shield everyone one else from the politics that happened above. The hardest part of the job was staying on top of the processes for different clients. Some followed the process that was laid down during the project...and other clients, even when it was defined at the beginning of each project, would make changes at the last minute. I also loved being able to use my skills as a front-end dev as well which was probably the most enjoyable part of the job...next to the holiday parties where they would bring in gifts and food for everyone.

Attention was paid to see that we were well oriented and prepared for our work. Our manager supported us well with the clients, and their sometimes unrealistic demands. There was a lot of travel, but usually had plenty of advanced warning, and arrangements were made satisfactorily. Compensation was apparently on the low end of the scale, and benefits were lacking compared to previous employers. Not working out of a GP site kept us remote from the company and I never really felt much of a part of it. In the end, we had received reports of new clients being brought on and a rosy picture, then suddenly my scheduled was changed and the next week half my team was laid off due to lack of work. Although one always finds something to complain about with their job, this was one of the best positions I have had and am sorry it didn't last longer.

Our team was contracted to a large company so we had specific policies to meet that contract that might be entirely different in another group within GP.

GP operates as a bunch of separate teams working with specific clients with little interaction between those teams.

The comments you see in reviews here may not apply for the team you are interested in. One team may be based in an office while another team might be 100% remote. Some may never travel, others travel as much as 100%.

Get the specifics from the team you are interested in before hiring on. Our team was good for someone that wants just part-time contract work and likes to travel a lot for a decent but not good wage. If you are looking for full-time with less than 100% travel, look elsewhere.

Management has inconsistent expectations and does not communicate these expectations or any process changes effectively. Both the team lead and operations manager were unavailable for questions. When employees did ask questions, they were made to feel like they were wasting the team lead’s or operations manager’s time. Changes to processes were not properly communicated and employees were penalized for not being aware of them. Employees were expected to use their own judgment, but were penalized if management felt they had acted incorrectly. Management did not provide employees with adequate training so they could act correctly in certain situations. Management also failed to provide adequate staffing for employees to operate at peak level.

A typical day at work involves ensuring the days agenda is prepared and all tasks are prioritized.  Being an administrative person requires being prepared for your tasks and the ability to be available to all personnel for assistance while executing those tasks.  

I am the Administrative Assistant to the Sr. Vice President and two Directors.  Each superior has very different styles of managing and it is imperative that an Administrative Assistant is able to cohesively work among those styles.

The hardest part of my job is the commute.  I enjoy my job and all of its aspects but find the time spent on the road to be a bit of a challenge.  

The most enjoyable part of my job is the ability to be versatile and assist various employees, clients and perform varying tasks.

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