Scholastic Reviews

Pros

Sales staff gets a transport allowance of $800. If you are getting less, you are being shortchanged.

Cons

Empty castles in the air. When they need you, they will give you the salary that you want and requests you to start almost immediately. When they want to terminate you, reason given was "company restructuring". Next moment, a new guy was hired for a similar position. Unrealistic and achievable sales targets High staff turnover. Messy processes, lack of innovations. Always reactive, never proactive. Management is lacking in ideas to build up the company.

Pros

Scholastic is a great name in the US in terms of children's book publishing, but truly disappointing in Singapore.

Cons

Management is desperate to get sales even without getting their product right. Although it is a MNC in name , it operates more like a SME(small medium enterprise) with no international outlook. Besides being stingy with its own employees, it is also unethical to its customers. Too many resignations every month yet management do not bother as long as they themselves stay on. No wonder schools are also shunning them.

Pros

Big international publishing name. That's all.

Cons

Lack of process and procedures. Poor strategic management view. Many empty castles in the air built. Unachievable targets.

Pros

Literacy, Children's books, fun products, good mission

Cons

No career advancement or movement and rampant nepotism

Pros

Flexible working environment, term time only available

Cons

Targets were an ever moving feast making it difficult to achieve bonus, however hard you worked.