Lakeshore Learning Materials reviews about "employee"

pay is minimum wage for seasonal employees

- Too many inconsistencies from team to team, which hinders cross-collaboration - Very difficult to grow your career at Lakeshore in most positions - Compensation is well below market value for many roles, but they will say it’s within industry standard - Overworked and underpaid in many roles…you will encounter many people who have done the same role for years without a promotion or clear career paths yet they will continue to take on more tasks and dip their hands in other areas that should technically be a pay grade or role above them - Having worked on various teams and with many different people at Lakeshore, your experience will vary completely based on who your boss and immediate team members are - Lakeshore seems to have lost their way a bit since bringing in outside influences to their business - I was part of the first round of layoffs and it seems like they keep letting more people go…people are worried for their jobs - When layoffs did start happening, people were offered roles completely different than what they were actually doing, and it felt like the company was trying to save face to say they didn’t lay people off, but rather tried to get them other roles within the company instead…which really doesn’t add up because the positions being offered were irrelevant to the skillset and seniority employees had - Annual employee surveys don’t seem to be taken as seriously as they should - The reevaluation of job title tiers versus compensation was completely off-point for a number of positions within the company, which now I’m thinking may have been foreshadowing all of the layoffs to follow. The most recent role I held at the company was not rated at the tier it should have been after that companywide study.

The compensation for this position was not sufficient for the demands of the role. There was also very limited opportunity to be promoted or gain increases in salary. Employees were explicitly and repeatedly told we would not get pay increases, and later found out this rule was seemingly limited to our department while other departments did get yearly increases. We were told this was due to the bonus structure, but in the years I worked here I did not ever receive a bonus. So after several years of very hard work and providing reliably high-quality customer experiences that increased our business - I did not receive an increase in my wages. When things in the industry went into a downturn recently, we were told we would need to work in a 'do more with less' mindset and this was really disappointing after already outperforming my rate of pay for several years. There were continuous limitations on personal time off which caused difficulty for a healthy work/life balance. This, coupled with the uncompetitive compensation, meant that job satisfaction was highly reliant on the job itself and the work culture. The company did not always utilize my department to its fullest potential and it often felt like we were a forgotten side dish. When we were often the most knowledgeable customer-facing employees in their toolkit. I was laid off, after several rounds of company lay-offs, and this process was handled very poorly. They pulled me and several of my teammates into the same zoom call to let us go at the same time. Forcing us to experience each other's reactions without any thoughtful time to discuss our feelings or effectively ask questions about the process before they immediately launched into making sure they collected a list of our company-issued technology (as if they didn't have this list already). This experience really sealed the entire experience working for Lakeshore to me - they used my skills for their benefit for years acting like I was part of their 'family' and treated me like a total stranger on the way out. I've been laid off before, but this was truly the worst I've been treated and I'll never forgive this company for being so cold and heartless after years of my dedication. And this failure is theirs to own due to poor business decisions. The PDS department continued to out perform our expectations year-over-year and yet they gutted the department to save money company-wide.

Return to office starting this year, 3-5 days a week depending on the department. No more fun events. No raises or bonuses next year. Due to everyone being back in office we are all cramped in tiny rooms not having any personal space. Employee morale is so low it can be felt in the hallways but everyone is pretending to feel fine so they don’t get in trouble with management.

Low pay makes it impossible to afford living in LA. Lakeshore talks a lot of talk about employee retention, loyalty, and caring like a family about it's employees. Didn't stop them laying off people who'd given 10 years or more.

The leadership and management of this company is lunacy. They made so many bad decisions over the last year or so, and it has put them in a really bad place for 2026. They don't trust their employees, they micromanage to the most extreme I have ever seen, and the inside sales leadership doesn't have their priorities straight. They don't care if you hit your goals or if you achieve your targets, they care if you have enough dials and virtual meetings, and if you met 20 other KPIs that don't actually correlate to revenue.

-Strange Company Culture -Mass layoffs ( 3 in 9 months) -Reckless at throwing money at clients and built the second biggest building in Utah but wont spend money on employees and fixing problems. - Not a lot of tenure - Terrible leadership with too many people with lack of experience as C levels -Very old school and wont accept new ideas - Construction is very cheap

No work life balance. Management does not care about employees. There is a cult like atmosphere. There are a considerable amount of Directors who are condescending and unprofessional to work with, This was one of the worst companies I worked for. I would NEVER recommend anyone work here.