Scholastic Employer Reviews

I primarily held a Supervisor position while at Scholastic. Primary responsibility was assisting, mentoring, guiding, directing my representatives that reported to me. Encouraging to them.
Management staff was overall 8 out of 10.
The hardest part of the position was leaving after 11 years.
I enjoyed seeing my representatives push, excel and reach goals.

I worked at Scholastic for many years. For most of the time, it was a great place to work. When the company was growing, there was great opportunity to expand skills and advance your career. But in the past year the company has been struggling to maintain revenue, and it has been a difficult place to work. Many folks have be laid off, and I fear the – more... end is not in sight. – less

Management was never satisfied despite hard work by everyone. Compliments are few but complaints abound by managers. I had never hated going to work as much as I did working for this company.

Manage territory of over 500 Book Fair events generating over $2M in revenue by expanding footprint in school districts through School Administration, Media Specialists, Literacy Teams and Field Representatives. I have the privilege of working with energetic volunteers, teachers and staff to achieve our mission to get books in the hands of all children – more... in the schools. I am supported by a great sales and marketing management team. – less

Scholastic was one of the best jobs that I've had the privilege of working at. The company strives for literacy and cares so much about the child literacy.

I had the pleasure of working with a great group of intelligent people who strived for success. I learned much while being there. Very good working environment, challenging and enjoyable.

This family owned business offered excellent benefits before and after it went public. It was amongst the first, for instance, to offer same-sex health insurance. It's outlook towards childhood education made it one of the earliest and largest of its kind. However, internal management varied from department to department and location to location. Mine – more... was very oppressive. When our entire department of hundreds failed to sell well one year, the entire staff was denied a bonus. I feel management should have taken the brunt of that cut. The co-workers were supportive and fun, but management was unappreciative and excessively demanding on hours and work output, at least while I was there. In July of the following year, the department was cut to a skeleton crew. – less

Most of the time it would consist of running a route , then making pick ups . Upon arrival at the warehouse , you would off load and then load the deliveries for the next day .

Phone sales, helping teachers with their orders for their classrooms, I learned it was different than what I was used to. Management trained us quickly and it was a lot to learn before they put us on the phones, I wasn't sure how to answer a lot of customer questions. Co workers were nice and they were all new employees also. It was hard to go in at – more... different times and schedules at short notice also the worse part was I was confused about what they wanted us to say to the customer. The enjoyable part was making new friends. – less

Traveled extensively to help Librarians plan and execute a book fair. I had a great group of co-workers and support staff in the warehouse. The best part was watching the excitement on the faces of the children when the book fair truck would pull into the school. I made many friends of the Librarians that I helped during their book fair.

I have wonderful co-workers who would lend a hand wherever needed as well as i do. The customers that call are sometimes upset but, with my prior dispatching skills i have learened how to bring them to act in a calm and collective mannor. I do everything in my power to make the customer happy in everyway necessary.

great place to work and management is awesome. i just need more job security.

good warehouse people but management sorry and plant manager the worse. work day and hours depends on how much one plays up to the plant manager. warehouse supervisior over worked and no help from plant manager. driver work loads very racial.

Indianapolis branch is horrible. Branch manager is fake and has employees work without needed accommodation. Managers say they will "fix it" or " buy new ones" but nothing is done. Manager keep budget tight so they can have bonus for self. Wont give hours. All around bullsh**.

This company is by far the worst company to work for. Manager and supervisors have no respect for employees or themselves. On several ocassions there has been employees talking about the manager being too flirtatious with female employees. Coworkers like to start drama and talk about others behind their back.secretary never answers the phone for customers – more... and is very unprofessional and walk in customers are treated very poorly. Simple questions are answered with attitude and unprofessionalism. – less

Best advice is STAY AWAY!

Forget Clifford the Big Red Dog - this place is pure Hunger Games. It's run by a bunch of people who have been here for many years. For the most part, they are rude, nasty and out of touch with the current market. And any newcomer who wants to make a difference - beware! You'll get chewed up and spit out.

There is little – more... innovation; most of the projects missed the boat years ago, but they still get a green light without a single thought about ROI. There is no strategic plan; the company operates a quarter at a time constantly overreacting to either the rare successful quarter or the usual down quarter. One quarter, they bask in the success of Hunger Games, a quarter later, it's cutbacks and hiring freezes.

The company has been around 92 years - good luck getting through the next 10. – less

When I first started working there, the employee morale was high, but new management destroyed that by doing a lot of backstabbing and lying. There was only looking out for themself. Current Branch manager would hire people from his previous employer.

Developed and maintained help desk with duties including: implementing and maintaining security, troubleshooting documents and interface with users, maintaining backups, managed VOIP to entire company, TCP/IP configuration, managed windows update services and supported multiple operating system

everyday was different, everyone morning breakfast was provided, always great and fun projects to go in bookfair warehouse, company always took my department on field trips bookfair related.

I had my own office space with tons of work to do, which was fun, always busy, meet millions of teacher state wide, build great relationship with teachers, parents, – more... all great co workers – less

Scholastic has a great mission to provide teachers and children with the best materials possible. People here are really dedicated to achieving the goals of the company. I have been able to learn a lot about the industry and marketing working at Scholastic.