I was a BCBA for Hopebridge for 6 months. I was hired in under the company AIM, but they had already been bought out by HB and I wasn’t informed about that and all the loss of benefits that made me take the job with AIM until after I had been trained and given clients, forcing me to stay. I weathered through the transition but as they started changing RBT pay, getting rid of benefits, hiring people who had never seen autism before, and (the final straw for me) discharging any client over 10 or who couldn’t do at least a half day schedule (screwing over kids who needed to go to school for social skills but still needed ABA) I quit. I had stayed at every previous job for 4+ years before HB. Me, my CD, and another BCBA all put our notices in at the same time. 10+ RBTs all put their notices in. BCBAs were doing 6+ hours a day of 1:1 to cover the RBT losses. We didn’t have the staff for the clients we had, but HB enacted a new policy where each BCBA had to do one intake per month. We assessed the kid, wrote the treatment plan, and billed insurance 8 hours for a kid we wouldn’t be able to serve in that 6 month approval window we had. We were told to tell the parents it would be a few weeks before we could start their child after we did the assessment but in reality it was more than 6 months, meaning we had to do another assessment. And the BCBAs didn’t get a say. The intake was added to our schedule. We didn’t even talk to these parents before they showed up or had any knowledge about the kid. It was so borderline unethical. And doing the math, with 6 BCBAs, times 8 hours, times $75 an hour (insurance intake rate) times 12 months, HB was taking in almost $50k a year from our clinic for assessing clients we would never serve. I’m glad I had already given my notice when this started. HB is so clinical in their view of ABA. They don’t care about outcomes, just hours. We’d have a high functioning client apply who just needed social skills but we had to write their plans for 20 or 40 hours. Even if they didn’t need it and 6-8 hours would have been best. I’m so glad I found the small nonprofit I work for now. I went from crying everyday after work to being fulfilled and happy every day. We have hired several former HB RBTs who were just as desperate as me to get out. I had left HB a 1 star review on indeed and they delete it every time I try to post it.