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Strategic Education, Inc.

Pros:

Excellent Tech Stack: The tools and infrastructure are top-tier, providing a great environment for high-level technical work.

Fantastic Peers: The broader team is supportive, highly capable, and great to work with.

Compensation: Pay and benefits are adequate and competitive for the market.

Cons:

Micromanagement and abusive treatment from the Executive Level: The current CISO employs a highly overbearing management style that is detrimental to senior-level autonomy. Expect extreme involvement in granular tasks (down to individual CVEs) and heavy policing of internal communications and stakeholder interactions as well as FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Deception).

High Turnover at Senior Levels: The two most recent Principal Security Architects have left the organization exclusively due to the CISO’s poor leadership and toxic approach. This is not a environment where senior talent is trusted or allowed to lead.

Culture of Stagnation: For professionals who value ownership and leadership, the environment is incredibly restrictive and draining.

Advice to Management:
The organization has a lot of potential, but the current InfoSec leadership is a single point of failure for talent retention. Senior professionals need room to breathe and lead. Until the culture of micromanagement and toxic behavior from the CISO is addressed, high-level talent will continue to churn.

Poor leadership at the VP/SVP level.  Do not value the Directors and Managers that are in the trenches getting things done. Prime examples in Corporate Finance, Financial Aid, and Human Resources.  Will go to the most subversive means any to make individuals shine and deflect things where glaring failure is obvious.  Almost like a soap opera where you really can't make things up its soooo crazy the extent/lengths and lies that are put together to destroy colleagues.  The term two faced and backstabbers would have new meaning at this company.  Sad!  People are hired for their ability, trust it and move on rather than being totally reactionary in their thought process.

The student-facing teams on the Capella University side of SEI are very dedicated to doing the right, best thing for students. It was very innovative and exciting place to work. Things changed after the merger with SEI and it really depends on the leadership of your area. I didn’t realize how toxic some of the upper levels of leadership were until I left. Mass exodus of talent during my tenure there. Suggest asking a lot of questions to get a good sense of team culture, how performance is measured, how decisions are made, what is valued, etc. if you’re considering working there. If you join a good team with supportive leaders, you’ll likely enjoy your role and day to day purpose. 

SEI is an innovative company with hard working people that never shrink at the chance to do something better and smarter.  They have very strong developers but their product management organization/game isn't what it should be.  They generate innovative solutions in spite of a confusing web of back end data and processes.  

Professors have the unique opportunity and privilege to work with students who are considering mid-career changes.  Students depend on the faculty to provide insights, wisdom, and counsel to ensure that academic choices agree with career goals and aspirations.

This is  not an academic or educational job, it’s about gaslighting “learners” into self blame for every aspect of their failure. The whole institution is hollowed out to part timers 

Busy! Most things "needed to get done yesterday." Lots of growth on the tech side of the company.  Constantly learning, which is challenging and exciting. 

Being an intern at SEI, I always had people around me willing to help, but just because I was an intern doesn't mean that help wasn't there for full-time employees. Everyone always helped each other to get work done, some would even take a project to help lighten the load for fellow colleges.

There's a level of team spirit one finds within the company. Everyone's trying their best, and while there may be some disconnect between the security process and with customers. Customers have faith in the security team, which shows.

Management was more concerned about revenue than staff.  Management was not effectively trained to management.  Many departments were run like a high school or college sorority rather than a professional educational institution.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Adjunct faculty 63 salaries reported	$2,509 per month
Admissions officer 18 salaries reported	$24.87 per hour
Director of student services 1 salary reported	$24.63 per hour
Instructor 7 salaries reported	$34.43 per hour
Account manager 3 salaries reported	$70,333 per year

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