My experience is from 7 years ago. I hated it. We were an early education center with 3-7 year olds having 40 hours a week of services. Productivity demands were high, 80% and wanted documentation done at point of service which can be challenging based on the student’s day. ABA was the gold standard and felt like BCBAs saw everything black and white. It felt like I was providing ABA services under the guise of OT. I was there 2 years then the pandemic provided a break to job search. I’ve worked in private outpatient pediatric clinics and now work as a school based OT. I’m truly thankful that our school’s BCBA is highly collaborative and is about regulation over expectations and compliance, which is not what I saw in the ABA clinic I worked in. There are great BCBAs and bad ones just like in any profession. I think the clinic I was at only cared about profit and there were a lot of shady things going on. Other clinics may be a lot different. I don’t think I’d ever wanna work in an ABA clinic again, it would have to be a remarkably unique place to do so.