Bridgepoint Education Reviews

I have been working at Bridgepoint Education

Pros – A lot of paid holidays. Average vacation and sick time. Decent health benefits.

Cons – Horrible management. Several managers advanced to their position with little management experience. Very disorganized. The company grew too fast and internal structure and organization did not evolve with it. The company let go of 10% of the company all at once (a mass fire, not a layoff). I would not recommend working here.

Advice to Senior Management – Provide more direction and feedback for employees.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Bridgepoint Education

Pros – Great benefits and pay and lots of perks, great people in middle management and regular positions.

Cons – Unethical, scummy. This company may be paying for it in the future but it will be years before the government does anything about degree mills.

Advice to Senior Management – Have more respect for people's personal lives!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Bridgepoint Education

Pros – Cafeteria on-site
Gym on-site
Clean bathrooms
Full package of dental, vision, and healthcare benefits

Cons – A lot of management have no clue what's going on with the employees in their department. They're busy running off from meeting to meeting instead of checking in on their employees' productivity and mentoring them in the right direction.

A lot of co-workers are conniving and don't teach you everything you need to know because they are insecure about losing their job. Most of management are really incompetent. they only got lucky to be promoted because the company grew so fast

Advice to Senior Management – Higher salaries, recognize who is working hard vs. workers who are hardly working and just chit chattin with their friends.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Bridgepoint Education

Pros – Bridgepoint Education, Ashford University and University of the Rockies has great benefits, $401k, stock options, tuition remission family oriented events and parties, and there isnt much mico managing.

Cons – There inst really any job security. depending on what department you are your managers can be conniving and manipulative. it is hard to move up when you work hard and don't try to sabotage others to get there.

Advice to Senior Management – Really listen to your staff and take their concerns and or suggestions into consideration and try to implement when they stress that it is important.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Bridgepoint Education

Pros – Education is viewed as very important within the company. The programs that are offered are plentiful, and accredited through the higher learning commission.

Cons – Sales type environment to get students into school. Pay increases are not what they used to be. Different verticals make it challenging to get students. Compensation does not compare to market standards.

Advice to Senior Management – Leadership programs are plentiful, because the organization is growing so quickly. Areas of advancement present themselves, as long as you are an expert in your current position. Most people start off in sales, and shift from there.

I have been working at Bridgepoint Education

Pros – A lot of Holidays (up to 12 holidays a year), pretty good benefits, you only have to be in a position for 6 months before changing positions

Cons – Very disorganized. The company grew so fast and employees moved up to be managers even though they lack experience managing people. There is lack of communication amongst department members. It takes forever to implement new things because everything has to get approved by upper level management.

Communication company-wide is terrible. They just got rid of 10% of their employees and will probably do the same thing again next year.

Advice to Senior Management – Pay more attention to people in your department. Provide more guidance and support and stop throwing projects down to your employee without giving any feedback.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Bridgepoint Education

Pros – salary was very competitive, fairly young employees

Cons – unethical behavior abound, management is completely clueless and do not care about providing a quality education. it's a complete numbers game to get people through the door.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Bridgepoint Education

Pros – Pros
Lots of internal promoting.
Good pay for professional/corporate level positions.
Most of upper management with education background or higher degrees are trying to do the right thing for students.
Fulfilling because American workers who didn't have the privilege of going to college right after high school can now go thanks to online education.
If you are in the right department, you can have a good balance between work and personal life.
Emphasis on giving back to the community.

Cons – Cons
Internal promoting means people not qualified to lead are in management positions.
Managers and higher receive bonuses but front-line employees(Admissions Counselors) are not paid sufficiently. (I am not an Admissions Counselor)
In some departments, expectations are unclear.
More and more, company is becoming more like a typical corporation--who you know takes you farther than what you know.
No working from home or part-time hours.
Vacation and sick time is minimal compared to market standard (until you get to your 3rd year, when vacation hours bump up)
Closest parking is given to members of association for salaried employees (who pay the membership fee) only, which makes life harder for Admissions Counselors--some have to take a shuttle from a remote parking lot.
Advice to Senior Management
Focus more on quality before investing prematurely in innovation. Once you have satisfied students who recommend our institutions to others, retention rates and reputation will improve. Number of enrollments might not increase as quickly, but that loss will be compensated by retention rate.
Have HR require peer evaluations as part of performance reviews.
Have people being promoted to management roles demonstrate their management skills first. Just because someone is good at their job doesn't mean they'll be a good manager.

Advice to Senior Management – Do peer reviews and upward reviews--far too many employees get promoted because they do things to "look good", while truly talented employees don't get rewarded for being both innovative and smart with processes. A quick win with a mess to clean up afterward is not as effective as a well-thought-out and executed plan that may take longer to implement but requires little to no fire-fighting after the project is over.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Bridgepoint Education

Pros – Good starting compensation, that is about it.

Cons – Reference check process is an online survey, rather than just calling
Recruiters/hiring managers are incompetent
You are hounded to attract people who are already in poor situations
The management level believe they have earned their way into a noteworthy position
The advancement depends on how many suckers you can get to sign on and stay on.

Advice to Senior Management – Grow up.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Bridgepoint Education

Pros – Lots of intelligent, driven and focused engineers.
Fairly exciting product line to work in with regards to the online/continuing education market
Company spends money on hardware/software as needed
Engineers get to pick Mac's or PC's as their workstations
Fast paced work environment

Cons – Complete lack of enterprise standards
Lots of interdepartmental politics
A lot of arrogant engineers that are extremely difficult to work with
Bizarre management layers - certain individuals are deemed as supervisors with 1 or 2 direct reports.
Incompetent upper management tier
Fast paced work environment

Advice to Senior Management – Hire engineers that understand what it means to work at an enterprise and take the company to the next level.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend