School of Rock Employee Reviews
Out of 111 School of Rock employee reviews, 67% were positive. The remaining 33% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping School of Rock improve their work culture.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Valuing employees by paying them enough. Not being so profit oriented.
Understand that a "one size fits all" model is stifling to students and instructors alike. Allow discretion to be made on the ground level. Make instructors feel more like the talented artists they are instead of the script readers they expect. Compensate for all mandatory work duties.
Invest in your employees. SoR charges more than any other studio in the area. They can afford to pay their instructors better. It's a revolving door with instructors because pay is far below market rate. This is not real music education. It's a great idea, but a complete joke. Shame on you
Paying staff a liveable wage and following work laws. No breaks, benefits, raises, or notice of pay changes more than a week before paychecks come out. Terrible unless you want to deficate all of your time and effort to it and work a second job
Understanding if you want good experienced instructors, you need to pay a living wage. If you want former students/teenages who just want to make a quick buck, cool. But advertise yourself that way. This is not an insitution for the best education, because you dont pay for the best.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
If the company offered any documentation or data available on pay scales.
More money and real benefits
Just someone to actually listen to ideas other than their own.
No one is paid a livable wage. Corporate expects a level of commitment they aren't willing to pay for. "The instructors understand the pay is what it is. They don't get paid well on gigs either" is the excuse I was given when I inquired about why rates are so low.
No pay transparency at all.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Fight for better conditions. Dont settle for less than what you deserve
We need more diverse leadership to be provided to the managers of individual schools. You cannot have someone in an extremely populous area on the west coast telling someone what will work for a midwest school. It is very naive to think the approach will be the same.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
The app is neat on paper but cumbersome to students and overbearing/monopolizing to instructor lessons. The in-house pedagogical literature (exercise books) range from sufficient to bafflingly backwards in content and delivery. The bands should cover a wider array of genres, not just 70s-90s rock.
Corporate needs to understand how a school works and to offer the support franchisees pay for, including a plan for better profitability and better pay for instructors.
The reassurance of our jobs that we have benefits and a system in place to protect the teachers of this company who are scape goats for legal matters.
People are in denial avoiding issues instead of fixing them.
Better management, better pay, better benefits. The teachers at the school get a very small portion of money that is paid for lessons. It is quite heinous.
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
At least make some effort to recruit better candidates. Like I said before... this place is a joke.
I had to take 3 interviews, two with corporate managers and one with the CEO before I was offered a poor paying job.
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Corporate doesnt seem interested in fixing processes and being fair, only caring about optics.
This company is greedy. Everybody wants to make a profit and I understand that, but the company is hurting itself by failing to keep talent. As a result, turnover is high for both students and instructors.
Work to fix the foundation of the company and stop pushing thousands of new stuff all the time.
As I said, corporate needs to be understanding of the individual needs of each unique school. This is not a cookie cutter business that they are trying to push on us.
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