Culture issues and large divide between top and bottom - Engineer Chamberlain Group Employee Review

2.0
Jan 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Nice modern office - Some very bright and friendly colleagues - Flexible remote work options

Cons

- Top heavy company, so many VPs, SVPs, directors, senior directors, senior managers - Large disconnects between business and engineering - Frequently asked to applaud ownership and higher ups when they get richer while low-level workers get squeezed, benefits cut down - No bonus program for low-level employees - Not enough PTO - Purchase by private equity firm doesnt inspire hope for improving culture

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5.0
Mar 12, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

People are helpful and work well together

Cons

Pay could be a little more competative

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3.0
May 13, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Chamberlain is a highly variable place to work. Everything depends on what team you are working on. Some teams will have managers who will fight for you and help build you up, others not so much. I have more or less grown up with the company and have seen it go from being owned by a private family to being owned by Blackstone and all between. Every year I ask myself, "is this the year I leave". My answer is usually no, as where else will be better when I am at least in a good position? Summer fridays are pretty great though.

Cons

Yearly reorgs are a constant drag. Some of the most CG-blooded people I have ever known are somehow always the first to get sent to the wood chipper. People flail around and react. There is no forward thought. Just constant reaction to whatever words the executive population utters. We have been 'transforming' for the near decade I have worked here. But what are we even transforming to? All I have seen is us transforming into yet another soulless company. Benefits have been getting crushed. My wonderful and amazing 401k service contribution was ripped away and replaced with a far less beneficial amount. If you aren't on a good team, or have a good manager, your chance for advancement will be near impossible. Constant 'do more with less'

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