Center for Autism and Related Disorders Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"I have worked for CARD since 2018. It has been a very rewarding field of work being able to help children and their families work through there battles."

"The company does not support its employees. Supervisors show favoritism and the CEO allows it. There are different standards for male and female employees. Co-workers are allowed to harass and belittle both other co-workers and clients."

"I worked for CARD for a little over a year. Our business was acquired by them. They sold our founder of the previous business a line of BS before she sold the business to them. They told the upper management team, "We want to learn from you". Because they bought us when our business was doing exceptionally well and we had a great reputation in the area for implementing ABA services for families with children with Autism. CARD is a shame based culture that treats their employees like work mules. CARD has horrible relationships with the insurance companies in our region. Before I left I felt like their business was unethical. They would hire line therapists at such a low rate that we rarely employed line therapists that were skilled. Instead we had people working as therapists that caused more damage than good. I had no voice, I would express my concerns and they would fall on deaf ears. This company is more interested in growing to 200 centers by the end of next year, but can't keep high quality in one of them. Before we were bought by CARD we had a ton of Kaiser clients. CARD ruined their relationship with Kaiser and they will no longer refer to CARD in my region. As a BCBA I would say to stay away from this company, they are not ethical. They do not individualize treatment for families. The office I worked for was Center based services and every client was expected to receive services at the center, even if it wasn't the plan that was best for the kid. ABA 101 is individualization for each client. But that is more expensive. And yes, the upper management is more interested in their celebrity status than each individual client. I felt like a number and I felt like my clients were a number, and this is not what practicing ABA is about. And if you don't fit in CARD's box, it's just a matter of time until you are squeezed out as a family or pushed out as an employee. Or, like me, leave because it made me sick to work in an unethical shame based environment."

"This is one of the worst companies I have ever worked for. They provide ABSOLUTELY no training. There is no opportunity to move up in the company. You get a 25 cent raise during your first 6 months which is fine. But you will never see another one in your life! The director is a heathen who takes away your benefits 6 months out of the year and takes away your direct deposit as a punishment. If thats not bad enough, sometimes she illegally takes your paycheck away."

"This company is run by a bunch of high school sophomores more interested in how hip they are than running a business. People are in positions they have no business being in. Former vendors trying to design, religious zealots who spend more time preaching the good word than doing a good job (not to mention firing employees only to hire fellow church members). These are the nice things I can say about the company. I would go to work and be verbally and physically assaulted."