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Performance Education Group Reviews

2.3

28% would recommend to a friend

(32 total reviews)

Owen Firth

56% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Performance Education Group has an employee rating of 2.3 out of 5 stars, based on 32 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Performance Education Group employee rating is 39% below average for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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32 reviews
3.0
5 Apr 2017

Confirming other reviews here

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Genuinely committed teams, chance to work with a number of grateful customers. Helping students get their first job. That said, this is the case in any school or recruitment agency.

Cons

No afterwork camaraderie. Convoluted performance appraisals and documents. Too many levels of middle management: there exists a prevailing sense that management is the only career path, causing a glut of nothingness (non-existent HR, next level leaders, meetings about meetings, paperwork, etc). This often impedes the mission statement of changing lives. Cases of bullying from senior management have been reported without any actions being taken.

1.0
5 Dec 2017

Don't let the fake 'positive' reviews fool you

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexibility around working hours. Great office location. Some of the people are great to work with. Welcoming environment (on the surface). Great opportunity for international students studying in Australia.

Cons

Minimal work-life balance. Favouritism. Extreme office politics. Unpaid maternity leave. Bullying is prominent with middle management. High staff turn over. Back stabbing. No rewards or recognition for staff going above and beyond. Staff doing only what is required of them in their role are put in the spot light - this is due to favouritism. Upper management seem to inexperienced in running growing businesses. Decisions that should be simple and quick to male need to be discussed for hours in meetings. The wrong people are in the wrong roles. A little more effort & focus could be put towards the students and their enviroment, they pay big bucks for what? People are directly appointed to roles behind the scenes, however the business acts like they are running a fair selection process. Quick to point out what someone has done wrong but not what they do well. Airconditioning & lifts are an absolute nightmare, most mornings students are lining up all the way back to Elixabeth Street waiting to get in to the building. The average salary is quite low, especially for the industry. Some basic roles are paid on the same par with some middle management. Makes vital roles redundant and act upon that very quickly, it makes it clear there is something more behind the decision, makes you question how trustworthy the company is and the people running it. Minimal career development unless you are one of the 'favourites'.

1.0
4 Jul 2017

Planted reviews

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The marketing department is clearly quite creative though their fake news isn't very well thought out.

Cons

Oh yes, it's a con.

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Performance Education Group Response
8y
You are accurate about your point being that there no place that is all pro and no con. Similarly, in the reverse where it is all con and no pro. What is concerning is that it appears so easy to make allegations about individuals and areas of the business without any evidence or facts. No team or individual has put up fake reviews - which I am interpreting refers to the reviews that are positive in nature. With the entitlement to opinions, it is conceivable that there are people at PE who have varying opinions. They also need to be respected.
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