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John “Jack” J. Lynch, Jr.
304 Ratings
Pros
"Offers great work - life balance" (in 92 reviews)
"People stay with HMH because of the great people they work with" (in 78 reviews)
Cons
"Lots of meetings about what a great job upper management is doing" (in 62 reviews)
"find a lifeboat because senior management is always going to put themselves before the people who actually know and understand the work" (in 41 reviews)
Pros & Cons are excerpts from user reviews. They are not authored by Glassdoor.
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Encouraged to grow and enhance skills
Cons
Mainly hire contract positions, few full-time jobs available
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
The Company values its biggest asset i:e employees
Cons
Nothing I can think of.
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
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Good benefits, great work-life balance, and fair pay.
Cons
Could have more perks, and sometimes the amount of red-tape to get things done can be an issue
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
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The work is interesting and there are some great people working here...Good work/life balance
Cons
In the last few years the company has fallen seriously behind in terms of salary and benefits, vacation time and paternity leave is very poor compared to other companies hiring tech talent. The management are aware but don't seem to care. This has lead to a very high attrition rate, lots of good people have left.
- Former Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
- good people for the most part - a good place to grow as a junior or regular software engineer or if in general you're in the early stages of your career (3-4 years) - some quite innovative technologies and software dev methodologies used
Cons
- overly hierarchical management - operates in an old-fashioned department-style - promotions above senior are almost impossible - senior leadership is slow to change - culture is behind the times - raises are terrible - mindless cost-cutting results in often overly manual processes that waste time
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
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Great colleagues. Opportunities to learn. The company invests in making it a great place to work.
Cons
Good people leaving which means more work on those left while new hires are got and coning on board
- Current Employee★★★★★
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They are making educational software working with interesting tech.
Cons
It's not bleeding edge stuff.
- Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
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HMH provides virtual classroom features to schools, teachers and students. You work for a cause here, ideas are appreciated and welcomed by this company and flexibility is their plus point. Agile and Kanban methodologies are followed here.
Cons
Almost all teams work together to provide functionalities of the same product so the interdependency on Teams is high. That may delay your sprint cycle.
- Current Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
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good people, nice office, good location
Cons
too much cost cutting causing difficult working environment, understaffing produces too much stress on current employees
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
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very friedly work environment and people of knowledgeble
Cons
nothing serious, career pression may be slow.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has an overall rating of 3.4 out of 5, based on over 1,288 reviews left anonymously by employees. 57% of employees would recommend working at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to a friend and 44% have a positive outlook for the business. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.
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