Student Experts Reviews

Unrealistic (and borderline delusional) productivity expectations Way too much favoritism Zero job security for full-timers - little interest in keeping them for more than 90 days (when they become eligible for benefits) Full-time offers are really just bait to get people to sign up and get scammed Some editors miss 2nd-grade grammar and punctuation mistakes Editing guidelines are not consistently enforced - a mistake that's "no big deal" one day puts you on the chopping block the next Incompetent, unprofessional and unpredictable senior management

The biggest problem with this company lies within the inability of the management to see its own missteps, miscalculations, and wastefulness. Beyond this, there is a strong culture of favoritism in which some employees have been hired not based on merit and skill, but because they know the management or rubbed someone the right way despite lacking applicable experience. While this approach to hiring may create a staff of brand and management loyalists--certainly a strength in the early stages of a company--it has led Student Experts into a pit of inter-employee resentment, wasteful spending, and dysfunction. Definition of roles, responsibilities, and expectations should have happened years ago. Compensation is another area of discontent. What appears to be an across-the-board freeze on raises has been in place for entirely too long, and its end has been defined by vague parameters the company may never reach. It is difficult to defend such a freeze when "chosen" staff receives compensation beyond its worth while other employees the company depends on to generate revenue continue to meet resistance any time the topic of compensation is raised. One of the key problems at Student Experts fueling the fire of unhappiness is that the management does not understand these issues and is unwilling to entertain the possibility that failure (at least with the existing staff) is a very real possibility if these problems are not addressed. Student Experts is not the hip, casual, and kindhearted company it once was, and is instead transforming into an out-of-touch machine that overlooks talent, sets morale-crushing expectations, and seems to fires at will without justification.