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Candace Martinez

Business - University Of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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4.7
Difficulty
7%
Would Retake
121
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Online Classes

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Attendance Mandatory

98%

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C+: 7
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Reviews (121)
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BADM380
Dec 28, 2018
Would take again

This class was flipped (lectures online & then you go to class & discuss/build on to lectures). She is very knowledgeable & knows a lot about everything. 2 exams (with 2 take-home essays), 10 image assignments (easy), 4 economist assignments (longer, but not hard), a group project with paper, & other things throughout, but a fun class nonetheless.

Respected
ACCESSIBLE OUTSIDE CLASS
Clear grading criteria
1.0
3.0
BUS401
Grade: Not sure yet
Oct 26, 2022

She's a good instructor, but no chill at all. She will call on people out of nowhere and force you to participate, which is understandable to a certain degree. Made it very clear during the first class that she does not like extra credit. Not very compromising and came off as unreasonably strict at times.

Tough grader
Lecture heavy
1.0
1.0
BUS401
Grade: A
Nov 10, 2022

BUS 401 curriculum seriously needs to be reconsidered. The class was a waste of time and one of the least valuable business core classes offered, even compared to gen eds. None of the material relates and the whole course was a captive zoom audience with no purpose. Professor was overly aggressive with participation that did not to the material.

5.0
2.0
BUS401
Grade: A+
Dec 7, 2022
Would take again

I really enjoyed Professor Martinez. She took her time connecting material to topics outside of a traditional business sense. It was a refreshing experience that increase my overall happiness and optimism about the field.

Get ready to read
Clear grading criteria
Inspirational
1.0
3.0
BUS401
Grade: A
Mar 12, 2023

This class and professor are a disgrace to an otherwise fantastic business program. Prof. Martinez is kind, but I found her to be disorganized when it came to the structure of the course. Expect excessive busy work, long/drawn-out lectures, and unreasonable attendance expectations. I'm surprised this course ever made it out of the pilot phase.

Participation matters
So many papers
Lecture heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: C
Oct 16, 2023

Very disappointing; She lacks class structure, arrives 5 minutes late to every class without fail, sets an unreasonable amount of homework and assignments, pretty rude to all students, has zero sympathy towards students, has out of date teaching methods, fails to give reasonable feedback. I would never this professor again. She is paid $150,000 btw

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BADM381
Grade: B
Oct 1, 2024

Always 10 minutes late to class. Assigns more homework faster then she can grade it. While she is upbeat and encourages class participation in a healthy way she is curt and rude to students if they don't follow her nonexistent directions for assignments. No sympathy to students, out of date teaching materials, feedback=degrading the student.

Get ready to read
Lots of homework
So many papers
1.0
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BADM381
Grade: Rather not say
Dec 5, 2024

The professor often arrives late, cuts off students and presentations rudely, and gives feedback lacking empathy. The course design is unclear, with outdated materials and overlaps with required courses, offering little on multinational enterprises.

Tough grader
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2.0
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BADM381
Grade: A+
Dec 9, 2024

The class in itself is an easy A but the professor has disorganized outline of assignments and unnecessary directions on final projects. Her feedback is very Kurt and cuts people off without giving them the chance to give their thoughts. Feedback is more critical than constructive

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A
Feb 20, 2025

Late to class every day. Complains about the slide deck that she uses without fail, every class. Very negative about everything and is rude to all students. Never teaches us anything more than what's on the slides. Forced participation with horrible feedback. Do not take.

Tough grader
5.0
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BADM449
Grade: Not sure yet
Feb 28, 2025
Would take again

Professor is very refreshing and shows a lot of effort in class. Cares about students and cares about the class. Professor has clear instructions with homework, readings and projects.

Group projects
Clear grading criteria
Inspirational
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Mar 11, 2025

She does not care nor respect students. Will go on long tangents regarding slides that she does not like yet still made. Asks for advice but will not take anything into consideration. After there was an 8% curve (from problems didn't have a right answer) the average was still a 78%. Very argumentative and will not listen to anything students say

Get ready to read
So many papers
1.0
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BADM449
Grade: Not sure yet
Mar 14, 2025

Rude to student, like to interrupt during others talking just to tell you, you are WRONG. The slide deck is very useless and messy, most thing are screen shot from wherever. She doesn't care about students opinion, not willing to take suggestions. Don't take hers.

Lots of homework
So many papers
Test heavy
5.0
3.0
BADM381
Grade: B
Mar 26, 2025
Would take again

Professor is a tough grader but she is very helpful on what I got wrong and why. Class is animated and lectures engages you! Professor has a very good ability to convey the notes/lectures slide to our everyday life. 100% would take it again!

Group projects
Clear grading criteria
Hilarious
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: Not sure yet
Mar 27, 2025

Makes unwarranted comments to students during class and interrupts them as they speak. Asks for feedback and then challenges students and does not take it into account. Very tough grader and not very approachable. Does not prepare you enough for exams/gives you resources at the very last minute. Do not take with her.

Tough grader
Participation matters
Graded by few things
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Apr 2, 2025

Do NOT take her. Exam is hard. Doesn't listen to advices. A lot of writing assignments.

Test heavy
1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A
Apr 5, 2025

She is predictably late to every single class, class structure messy and she is noticeably unprepared. Outdated standards for consulting slides. Her slides are blurry, messy, and unclear. RUDE to everyone and makes students uncomfortable. Workload unreasonable for business core class.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
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BADM449
Grade: A
Apr 29, 2025
Would take again

This class is an easy A compared to some of the other teachers. I have had friends with a different teacher and their gpa was much lower than mine. We all took the same course but with different teachers. Prof. Martinez gives good feedback on assignments. If you participate in class and do her easy assignments. It's not hard to get an A.

Get ready to read
Group projects
Respected
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4.0
BADM449
Grade: A
May 1, 2025

Professor was always late to class and her slides were outdated making it hard for students to follow. The exams had content on there that was unrelated to class material bringing exam averages down. There was also excessive writing assignments that were repetitive for no reason. She was also rude to students when giving feedback. DO NOT TAKE HER.

Tough grader
Participation matters
Lots of homework
1.0
4.0
BADM449
May 4, 2025

Boring lectures + unorganized canvas + unorganized slides she "teaches" off = a disaster of a class. She tests us on the textbook she hates, so the info we have to know is cherry-picked and given to us last-minute. The cases are boring to read & many of the assignments are given no structure on what to do but graded very harshly. AVOID THIS TEACHER

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Lecture heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A+
May 5, 2025

She is extremely unprepared and on numerous occasions has shown certain tendencies against East Asian and Hispanic students. While other students are on their phones during her class which is no technology, she will only single out these students and go out of her way to ensure an unenjoyable class experience. She singles out struggling students.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
So many papers
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BADM449
Grade: A
May 5, 2025

She made a student cry in class today. She always complains that she doesn't make materials for the class, so why not make them then if you hate them so much? She is extremely disrespectful to underperformers and has referenced her political views in class before which is extremely unprofessional. She makes $162,000 too many and does no work.

Tough grader
Group projects
Lots of homework
1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A
May 5, 2025

She complains about exams and slides that she made. Participation is required which is fine until you're a quiet person, non-Native speaker, or not confident in your answer. Disrespected students continuously throughout the semester. Essays are repetitive; she is unclear about any requirements. Absolutely DO NOT TAKE HER.

Tough grader
Participation matters
So many papers
1.0
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BADM449
Grade: B-
May 5, 2025

Just thinking about going to her class gives me panic attacks. It has been an uncomfortable semester in her class and she has singled me out publicly for being an underperformer in her class. She gives me menacing stares during class, not to forget gives very repetitive assignments and never explains directions. Takes off points without explaining.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Test heavy
1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 5, 2025

She constantly disrespects students and makes them feel unwelcome. She does not prepare you adequately for exams. She offers repetitive assignments and takes off points from students. She categorizes students as underachievers and targets them during classes. She has referred to underdeveloped countries in cases very rudely before.

Tough grader
So many papers
Test heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A
May 5, 2025

She is very rude during office hours and in class, singles students out, stereotypes students and puts them in boxes, does things her own way and strives to challenge students in ways that harm learning. People are scared of even going to her class and it is reasonable why. She should not be in a classroom, she should be a women's prison warden.

Tough grader
Lots of homework
Test heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A
May 5, 2025

I am so thrilled to leave this class tomorrow and never take it again. This was my least enjoyable class of the semester, and I learned that a professor can really make or break the experience, in this case break. She singled me out many times during the semester and loved seeing students be miserable. She was very rude during office hours.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Lecture heavy
1.0
4.0
BADM449
Grade: A
May 6, 2025

She offers feedback that is extremely critical, not constructive. She was very rude to a group mate of mine who is ESL and used note cards. She is consistently rude and disrespectful to students and gives repetitive writings with unclear criteria. Her grading policies are unfair and questionable. I dreaded this class everyday.

Tough grader
So many papers
Lecture heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A
May 6, 2025

The 5 good reviews she has on here are clearly ragebait. She never fails to make her classroom an uncomfortable environment for everyone. Her instructions are very unclear and her grading procedures are unfair and put students into a box. She has "good" and "bad" students stereotyped in her mind and treats them according to how she sees them.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Lots of homework
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: B-
May 7, 2025

I didn't even plan on taking the class with her, I signed up for another professor. Then it got changed to her, unfortunately. Unclear grading procedures, rude during office hours, rude to students and in class and makes very snide remarks and comments. Her class environment is very uncomfortable and nobody in my class even likes going.

Tough grader
Lots of homework
Test heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A-
May 7, 2025

Expect critical and harsh feedback from her, not constructive. It seemed like it was more anger directed toward the particular students rather than helping the team improve for the report. Questionable teaching methods and grading. Office hours are useless and she just wants to leave, why even hold them then? She complains about slides consistently

Tough grader
So many papers
Graded by few things
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A-
May 7, 2025

My group had a presentation last week for her class. We received very harsh feedback from her and then she held one of my groupmates back after a team meeting with her. I later got to know that she gave that student individual cruel feedback and berated their performance and accused them of not contributing to the project when I know they did.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Participation matters
1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A
May 7, 2025

One word to describe Candace is insufferable. There are tough professors who are good people, and she is not. She lacks empathy and consideration and makes her students anxious. She complains about slides she didn't make, so why can't she make them? Her TA's do more work than her but she gets paid a handsome salary. She should be reported.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Lecture heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: B
May 7, 2025

She is very rude and targets certain students in her feedback, making very blunt comments and not sparing anyone's feelings. Unclear and ambiguous grading criteria, perhaps even capricious. She has no corporate or real business experience yet teaches about business policy.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Lots of homework
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A-
May 7, 2025

I am so glad to never step foot in her class again. Different professors for the same class have different and more clear grading procedures than her. She doesn't prepare students for exams and uses outdated material. She thinks she's being funny when she's actually making students uncomfortable.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Participation matters
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A-
May 7, 2025

If you're a POC or international student, avoid taking her class. She will target you especially and ask you to speak up or pretend she cannot understand your accent. She has made comments about international students before, particularly Chinese and Indian. If you're white you're fine. She tells students to think, learn and grow but we can't.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Participation matters
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: B+
May 7, 2025

She uses threats a lot during class and makes students extremely uncomfortable especially POC and international as many people have said. She encourages participation but is dismissive if you get an answer wrong and makes you feel bad about it. She has personal issues with students and makes it seem academic. She is highly under qualified.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Test heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A-
May 7, 2025

Someone called her feedback and grading "capricious" and I think that is very true. Her grades and feedback aren't measured by students' effort, but rather by her problems with them. If she catches a student on their phone or looking down or not making eye contact with her the whole time, she will seek revenge through comments and grading.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Test heavy
1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 7, 2025

This professor has no experience in the corporate world yet disguises her very rude and targeted feedback to students as "criticism they won't give you in the real world that you need to know." She uses her personal issues with students and takes them out in academic pursuits saying "that's how academia works." Unclear expectations, poor structure.

Get ready to read
So many papers
Test heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: Rather not say
May 7, 2025

I haven't taken her, but I have friends that do and they always complain about her being politically incorrect towards students. Someone posted about her on Reddit too and many people commented that their observations are valid and they heard about her. My friend said they felt very targeted in her class and it ruined their mental health.

Get ready to read
Participation matters
Group projects
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: Rather not say
May 7, 2025

I've never seen a professor this disrespectful and inconsiderate towards her students, especially those that are not like her. If possible, avoid taking classes with her at all costs, even if it means waiting a semester to take it with a different professor. She is very mean, makes you feel unwelcome, and overall unpleasant to be around.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Participation matters
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: B+
May 7, 2025

Ambiguous grading policies, personal attacks to students especially ones not like her, unwelcome learning environment and cold-calling used to shame students. Likes to interrupt students just to get the glory of saying "YOU ARE WRONG." Encouraging participation only works in a warm environment, not one where you are afraid to be wrong and learn.

Get ready to read
Participation matters
Test heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A
May 7, 2025

She has no passion or knowledge in her field, no real world experience, grades on her own whims and fancies, misleads students on purpose, gives repetitive assignments, loves to embarrass students she doesn't like, very RUDE and MEAN. Her behavior should not be excused. Most students in Gies know about her and her issues.

Get ready to read
Participation matters
So many papers
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: C+
May 8, 2025

Don't take this professor, she is very mean and lacks empathy for her students. Her class gave me so much anxiety as she would cold call on poc.

Tough grader
Lots of homework
Test heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: C+
May 8, 2025

Her class gave me anxiety and still does even though it's over because she is very intimidating to students who do not look like her. Questionable grading procedures, rude in class, cold calls students, tries to trap students and attack them for not studying, deceptive exams and makes the class how she wants it. DO NOT TAKE HER

Participation matters
Lots of homework
Test heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A-
May 8, 2025

I don't understand how she talks to students the way she does and gets away with it. It is very hurtful. Her class gave me anxiety and still does even though I'm done. She has outdated materials and teaching methods and loves to disrespect students. She wants us to participate but shames us when we do. Doesn't prepare us for tests. AVOID HER

Get ready to read
Group projects
So many papers
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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 8, 2025

She can turn your otherwise quality Gies education into an unpleasant experience. Taking this class with her will ruin your mental health, sanity and self-esteem. Her grading procedures make me anxious. She will be extra hard on POC women. She takes her pent up rage and describes it as academic criticism but it is targeted and filled with hate.

So many papers
Lecture heavy
Test heavy
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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 8, 2025

Good luck if you want a professor who respects you and actually cares for your feedback. She will argue with you if you give her feedback but when she gives you personally directed criticism, you cannot talk back to her. She does not respect students, she wants to humiliate them. I don't think her supervisors have any idea how she is in class.

Get ready to read
So many papers
Test heavy
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BADM449
Grade: C+
May 8, 2025

She is a nightmare of a professor. She has certainly violated policy multiple times by talking about her political views in class and being RUDE to certain groups of students. She is shady about her grading policy, her Canvas is disorganized. She wanted students to come to her class in hazardous weather and used profanity.

Participation matters
Group projects
So many papers
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BADM449
Grade: B-
May 8, 2025

I personally struggled in this class throughout the semester and I couldn't even feel like I could ask for help because of how intimidating she is in class. I feared if I went to office hours, she would make fun of me since she is so rude and insulting in class. She is unclear about grading and expectations and shows up 10 minutes late every class.

Get ready to read
Participation matters
So many papers
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BADM449
May 8, 2025

Her teaching style is disorganized, threatening and rude and her ability to convey the material is poor. Students who struggle don't feel comfortable going to her for help because she makes them so uncomfortable. She complains about slides she made and stares down students who she feels like who sit in a certain row.

Tough grader
Participation matters
Group projects
1.0
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BADM449
May 8, 2025

She was very vindictive towards a student who violated her class policy by significantly lowering their grade. She took her anger out on that student constantly for the entire semester and made sure they knew they were unwelcome. Maybe if she valued her students, they wouldn't violate the no tech policy. Nobody even wants to be in her class.

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BADM449
May 8, 2025

Martinez has problems separating her personal feelings from her work life. She brings her personal problems to work and takes them out on students who don't follow her rules or she just doesn't like. Usually, if you fall in this group you are a POC or international student. If she asks for suggestions don't give any. She will argue with you.

1.0
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BADM449
May 8, 2025

There are tough professors who genuinely care for their students' professional development, and then there's Martinez who cares to make sure students feel unprepared and unsuccessful especially if they fall under a certain demographic. Unstructured, disorganized, and always late to class. Cold calls students for the purpose of being mean. DO NOT.

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Grade: A-
May 8, 2025

She is a shame to Gies. I'm sure the recent outpour of reviews has to do with the Reddit post about her recently and rightfully so. Many students have been holding in their feelings the entire semester. She uses her position of power to intimidate students and portrays a totally different side to her colleagues. Her lectures are ineffective.

Participation matters
So many papers
Graded by few things
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BADM449
Grade: C
May 8, 2025

She lacks any sort of professionalism and is extremely rude to students. If they mess up, she will be nasty. It's not a proper environment for growth and she criticizes some students to no end. How she treats her students and conducts classes is very unlike the real world. She should be on a reality TV show for rudest professors in the school.

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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 8, 2025

Now that the class is finally over, I can share my thoughts. She does not show professionalism when coming to class 10 mins late or being rude to students and grading based on her mood towards them. She actively makes threats to students. She makes the material confusing and if you admit your confusion, she will make fun of you. DO NOT TAKE HER.

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BADM449
May 8, 2025

I took her class a couple semesters ago but I heard from my friends in class this semester that she got even worse than when I had her. She was very disorganized, showed up late to class and also still did target quiet students and non-native speakers, but it seems like it got much worse now. Her exam averages were always low and material sucked.

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: B
May 8, 2025

If you get stuck with her somehow, drop the class or wait to take it with someone else. There's no issue with the course itself, but with the way she teaches it. It's business policy and strategy with a side of intimidation, humiliation, rudeness, insults. If she targets you for something it'll be for the whole semester and reflect in your grades.

Participation matters
Lots of homework
Test heavy
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BADM449
Grade: B-
May 8, 2025

Blunt and rude are two totally different things. She thinks shes blunt but shes RUDE. Unable to effectively teach material but can humiliate students well. Lacks basic etiquette. Teaching style is not suited for any educational institutions. I haven't been able to sleep properly in weeks because of her rudeness when I participate in class.

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BADM449
May 8, 2025

I've never seen a professor get so much joy out of seeing her students so miserable. She is so happy when students are upset. People can't focus properly in class because of fear. She creates a fear-based learning environment. She has been given a very long rope.

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Grade: A-
May 8, 2025

I'm not even motivated to do any more work for her class because she has made the material and lectures very unenjoyable. I probably would have cared more if I had a different professor. I was one of her targets this semester and I am mentally drained. Gies needs to stop hiring professors who have no manners.

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BADM449
Grade: B
May 8, 2025
Would take again

The professor is like a high school mean girl who never aged out. This is the mentality she brings to her lectures, along with coming to class late and being extremely unprofessional. She puts in no effort and is monotonous. I cheer in my head when her lectures are over because she talks nonsense and is very mean. This class is required sadly.

Participation matters
So many papers
Test heavy
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BADM449
May 8, 2025

Do not expect any consideration if you take her class. She definitely takes advantage of the fact that she is tenured. She is a professor with genuinely no knowledge of what she teaches. She made a snide remark about girls who show up late to her class when she does that every single class, so you can guess how ineffective she and her lectures are.

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BADM449
May 8, 2025

I'm thrilled people are spamming this because it is necessary to prove how many students were affected by her class. It was a traumatic experience for me as an international student. Every time I talked she told me to speak up or yelled "WHAT" with a rude look on her face. It's already hard enough being an international student.

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BADM449
May 8, 2025

After you take this class, forget everything. You will never use it in the real world. If anything, you might think mean people are nice because this professor is a level of cruel that was incomprehensible to me before taking this class and getting disrespected by her every Tuesday and Thursday.

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BADM449
Grade: C+
May 8, 2025

A few people have described her as being vindictive and I think that's definitely the word here. You can't even focus on her poorly executed lectures because she's so focused on creating enemies out of her students. Very revengeful professor. Ineffective lectures, poor blurry slides, horrible learning environment. I don't feel motivated to finish.

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BADM449
Grade: B+
May 8, 2025

Just look at her ratio of reviews here and how an overwhelming majority are 1 star. She is a bad person and a bad professor. Everyone knows you don't take personal issues out on students. Most of my classmates are uncomfortable. She doesn't encourage her office hours and if you go you aren't welcome. Her presentations are disorganized and boring.

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BADM449
May 8, 2025

There comes a time when a professor needs to stop teaching, and that is now for Martinez. She brings her negative attitude to class and instills fear among students. She demonstrates poor character and business professionalism. She yells at students for the same things that she does. I have cried after class so many times.

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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 8, 2025

I'm literally considering therapy at this point because of her and her classes. I worry that her rudeness will be a barrier to me getting the most out of my professional life. Whatever I do after graduation certainly won't relate to her poorly executed lectures and slideshows and inability to effectively convey material.

Participation matters
So many papers
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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 8, 2025

Like the last post said, she will be hearing from my therapist. This experience will cost me a lot in therapy. I felt dehumanized in her class. I had no motivation to participate knowing I would get humiliated let alone study or pay attention. It's not like she gives effective lessons anyway. The Harvard Business cases are way more useful than her.

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BADM449
Grade: B+
May 8, 2025

This professor does not care about her students, she makes students uncomfortable and attacks students that are international and people of color. She calls out students for not knowing the answer and makes the learning environment feel hostile. She belittles students and makes them not feel welcomed. Has a negative energy and comes to class late.

Participation matters
Group projects
So many papers
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BADM449
Grade: A
May 8, 2025

Gives little guidance on what to do for projects and set students up for failure for exams and doesn't believe in study guides, says that she purposely finds and makes obscure questions for exams. Her exam averages are super low and she doesn't believe in extra credit. She has an auto failure of the class if you miss more than two days of class.

Participation matters
Group projects
Test heavy
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5.0
BADM449
Grade: B+
May 8, 2025

She is a very intimidating and rude professor who oversteps boundaries and uses the privilege of her power to tear down students. She was mean from the beginning but the worst as class ended. It was a sour note to conclude my Gies experience. I struggled but was scared to get help from how she was humiliating in class. She was ineffective.

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BADM449
Grade: A
May 8, 2025

She is the single worst professor at Gies who intentionally sets students up for failure. She doesn't believe in helping students or giving them study plans, cannot accept her mistakes but will berate students to the point where they go home and cry. Her slides are awful and an eyesore. She can't teach without insulting students.

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BADM449
May 8, 2025

I have had so many sleepless nights because of how rude she was to me in class. It makes it hard to focus on her presentations which are not informative anyway and have nothing to do with exams. Retention of learning is hard when your guard is always up in class.

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A
May 8, 2025

She is not a testament to the values upheld at Gies. Older professors typically come with a wealth of knowledge and she has none. Her slides are heavily outdated and she can't go a class period without complaining when she made them. She always tells international students or POC to speak louder even when they aren't quiet.

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A
May 8, 2025

She might be senile because she cannot teach without targeting and hurling insults at students as if they are also part of her nonexistent lesson plans. Purposely chooses obscure questions for exams to spite students. Low exam averages. Everyone who has her this semester is complaining on here and for a reason. Raises her voice and screams.

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BADM449
May 8, 2025

The night after I presented her, I couldn't sleep because her comments were hurtful and personally directed, not constructive or relating to the material. I had an exam the next morning too for another class. She cold calls POC a lot. She always comes late to class and intimidates students. Nobody feels safe in her classroom.

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BADM449
May 8, 2025

She stared me down for going to the bathroom during her lecture when I had a stomachache. I couldn't miss class anymore because I already missed two. She sends aggressive messages on Canvas and makes snide remarks in class. She mutters things under her breath which are likely mean. Her lessons are useless for exams and life. DO NOT TAKE HER

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A
May 8, 2025

Her material is ineffective, she is intimidating and all her students are scared to come to class. She threatens students, disrespects them, and makes sure to give them unnecessary hurdles in exams. She enjoys seeing her students fail and is not afraid to fail students.

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BADM449
Grade: A
May 8, 2025

I have certainly developed stress lines from taking her class. She stress me by cold calling and insulting me. She has no empathy for her students and complains about slides she makes so nobody can focus properly.

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: C+
May 8, 2025

I was aware that she didn't have a good reputation before getting stuck with her class, but she's 10x worse now. Questionable teaching methods, outdated slides and constant negative energy. She is a hater to all students. She loves international business but hates international students and POC.

1.0
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BADM449
May 8, 2025

She makes everything 10 times more complicated than it needs to be and ruins students mental health. She is insanely rude and tricks you on exams. She likes to make her students feel inferior

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: B
May 8, 2025

She focuses a lot on what her students do WRONG and if they do something right it is immediately followed by a rude comment. Doesn't know how to teach but does have a PhD in how to make sure students are horribly underprepared for exams and projects. Her TAs are more competent than her and they're literally students.

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 8, 2025

Me and my friend of the same ethnic group were constantly targeted in class. She did not spare feelings and is a mean person along with inconsiderate instructor. Boring presentations and repetitive assignments. Feedback is more of her problems with your personality than your work.

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BADM449
Grade: B+
May 9, 2025

Sometimes I forget if this is a class or a bullying session. This professor is a bully and incorporates into her lessons. She shows up late, complains about slides she made, uses fear tactics, sends mean messages on Canvas and keeps her page very unorganized. She purposely picks questions we have no way of knowing the answers for

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BADM449
May 9, 2025

She cant teach, she doesn't want to be there clearly and she doesnt want students in her classroom. If she does want them its to humiliate them. It's not a learning zone. She complains about everything. Her slides make me yawn. She thinks shes Gordon Ramsay of business school except Gordon Ramsay knows what hes doing. Martinez doesnt.

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BADM449
Grade: A
May 9, 2025

I had to leave for the restroom during class due to a women's health occurrence. She gave me a nasty, menacing look when I came back, then cold called me and then held me back after class and yelled at me for disruptive behavior. She doesn't post slides on Canvas in time. Doesn't help prepare for exams. Doesnt guide us what to study.

1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A-
May 9, 2025

Her expectations are not always written out, you apparently have to be a mind reader to know. She says statements that would normally be friendly in a condescending manner where you know she means ill, not well. Rude and disrespectful to students. Embarrasses students publicly. Suspected of racism by many students. Complains about her own slides

1.0
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BADM449
May 9, 2025

She invades my personal space during class all the time and comes close to my face when giving lectures and I can smell her breath. Her lectures are not engaging and its unclear what the takeaways are. Her expectations are in her head, not the syllabus. Her canvas is disorganized and chaotic. She purposely makes sure some people miss the attendance

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BADM449
Grade: B+
May 9, 2025

She doesnt respect students or their personal space, lacks basic empathy, has double standards and grades capriciously. Nobody knows her expectations. She picks obscure exam questions. She screams at students. She stepped on my foot and never apologized. She is on a huge power trip because her lectures are unprofessional but shes tenured.

Participation matters
Lots of homework
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5.0
BADM449
Grade: A
May 9, 2025

She doesn't even properly remember the names of the cases she makes us read and analyze. Rude to students with many snide comments. Constantly disrespectful to everyone. If she has a bad day which is everyday, it is for everyone in class. She is confusing in class. She does her own thing with the frat boys cheering on while everyone else suffers.

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: C+
May 9, 2025

If you are a POC or international student do not take her. She will make you uncomfortable especially if you are East, Southeast or South Asian. She assigns many assignments at the same time and doesnt realize we have other responsibilities. She has no desire to be there but her paycheck, and that reflects in her teaching.

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 9, 2025

The way she graded exam 2 was suspicious. She never gave statistics. She slams the door aggressively. She complains about her own slides, rude and disrespectful to students even if they have jobs and expects everyone to cater to her whims and fancies. She is full of entitlement and privilege.

1.0
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BADM449
May 9, 2025

The stress from her class is something I talk about at my counseling sessions. I have never been beaten down by a professor like this. She has no idea how to present and just reads off slides she complains about. She spends 99% of the class berating students. She makes out of pocket comments. She makes texts extra hard. She tricks people on exams.

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BADM449
Grade: A
May 9, 2025

If you're a Gies student, chances are you have heard about someone complaining about her class this semester. She gives her students unnecessary work for a business core and humiliates them by constantly being RUDE. Her lectures do not help and no need for retention.

1.0
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BADM449
May 9, 2025

She uses the word "sucks" a lot for being a self proclaimed academician. She lacks professionalism and shows up late while calling out students who do under her breath. She doesn't even know her own course. She lacks content knowledge and misguides students. It's hard to focus on material when she spends half the class complaining about slides.

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BADM449
May 9, 2025

She uses the students and class as an outlet for her pent up anger and rage which is very unprofessional. She is a lesson to students on what not to expect in the real world. She screams in students faces to the point you can smell her breath, as someone said earlier. Her slides are just a decoration because no learning happens in her class.

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BADM449
Grade: A
May 9, 2025

Incompetent professor. Heavily underqualified, it is a wonder how she got her degrees. She has very outdated standards for consulting slides and very strange criteria for evaluating others. She is very mean to students who are from the other side of the globe. She is insensitive to students personal situations.

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BADM449
May 9, 2025

Lacks empathy for students, poor slides, outdated guidelines, unclear expectations, RUDE to students, stares at you, doesn't care to know your name unless she hates you so that she can grade you capriciously.

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: D+
May 9, 2025

Her grades arent based on your understanding, its on how much she likes you. Which is easy if youre white. You can study all you want with her misleading slides and study guides she steals from other instructors and you will still fail her exams because she DOES grade capriciously. It's like the pyramid on Dance Moms for BADM 449.

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 9, 2025

The recent reviews do so much justice to her poor teaching of a course that could have originally had potential. People with other teachers actually enjoy the class and have better GPA's and interest in the subject. Her slides are useless, she doesnt review with you for exams nor give you resources and she wants you to fail. She laughs when you cry

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BADM449
Grade: B-
May 9, 2025

Someone said that the only people who like her are frat boys and that is very true. She treats them like human beings while treating everyone else especially WOC like subhuman. You will never be prepared for success with her guidance (or lack thereof). She shouldnt be teaching a literal capstone class. She is not a subject matter expert.

1.0
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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 9, 2025

Always 10 minutes late to class. Very negative and unhealthy environment for participation. She is malicious, evil and rude to students if they don't follow her nonexistent, nowhere to be found directions for assignments. No sympathy to students, out of date teaching materials, "feedback" is degrading the student if theyre POC.

Participation matters
Group projects
Test heavy
1.0
5.0
BADM449
Grade: A
May 9, 2025

I didn't even ask to be born as a POC so you can imagine how frustrating it is when I get treated differently and extra rude by my professor. Always late, degrades students, outdated material, nonexistent instructions. She could have an undiagnosed mental illness because she talks about things that aren't on her Canvas at all.

Get ready to read
Group projects
So many papers
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5.0
BADM449
Grade: B-
May 9, 2025

Asks for suggestions only to argue with you and never implement them, blurry and messy slides that she complains about, doesnt talk about the material besides what's on the slides, disrespectful to specific targeted students and it's pretty tough for those of us who arent targets to watch. Has requirements that nobody knows about

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BADM449
Grade: A
May 9, 2025

This professor is straight up psycho. She doesn't make her expectations visible or clear, berates students in the name of feedback and has very blurry and messy slides that are extremely vague. Her lectures are just reading off her slides.

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BADM449
Grade: Not sure yet
May 14, 2025

awful....the whole course is boring, and the assignment is hard

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Participation matters
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BADM449
Grade: A+
May 14, 2025

Needs to retire asap. Martinez asked for feedback and got so defensive when students responded. She doesn't even know her syllabus, and she added extra assignments for no reason. This course has so much busy work, and the tests are so stupidly specific. The worst part is that she always interrupts students when speaking to get her point across.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Lots of homework
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5.0
BADM449
Grade: B+
May 14, 2025

She has to be losing her mind. Adds random assignments to Canvas, grades capriciously, forgets her own syllabus, makes the class and tests 10x harder than they need to be, doesn't prepare enough, argues with students when they give her feedback she asks for, her feedback to students is degrading them and she invades personal space.

Get ready to read
Group projects
Lots of homework
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5.0
BADM449
Grade: A
May 14, 2025

Martinez needs to retire. Her behavior is awful, grading is mood-based, tests are oddly specific and she is very rude to her students. Her lectures are boring, slides are blurry and you never learn anything really. Take with literally any other professor for 449.

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BADM449
Grade: Not sure yet
May 14, 2025

Insanely disrespectful to students, its clear when she is annoyed by their presence. Unstructured class, lousy assignments, clueless of her content and syllabus and makes the class way harder than anyone else. If you love yourself, don't take her. I wasnt even planning on it but the section I was in got switched to her.

Participation matters
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BADM449
Grade: C+
May 14, 2025

My mental health was ruined for a semester. This class was my worst this semester and so unnecessarily hard. I didn't even want to go to office hours because she was so condescending. Not to forget her content was very unclear and she just expected you to get it right away.

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BADM383
Grade: A
May 14, 2025

She made a subject I was passionate about boring and dreadful by being aggressive and rude, having an unstructured class and being argumentative with her students along with utterly disrespectful

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BADM449
Grade: A
May 15, 2025

Unacceptable behavior to students and approach to teaching. If you dont want to teach then dont. Class structure is nonexistent, material is blurry and irrelevant and she overcomplicates things. Lacks any basic understanding of the syllabus and materials that she literally created.

Participation matters
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BADM449
Grade: A-
May 17, 2025

Terrible professor and terrible person overall. God awfully disrespectful to students, exam questions are nothing related to the course material. Expects you to read six 15 pages reports in the span of two weeks in addition to the many other hw we already have. Worst class I have ever taken at U of I and I just completed Math 257 this semester.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
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BADM383
Grade: A
May 25, 2025

Gets argumentative with students, secretly adds assignments to canvas without telling, lots of case readings, class was very unstructured. Overall, find a different professor if she is your professor.

Get ready to read
Participation matters
Lots of homework
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2.0
BADM449
Grade: B+
Jul 10, 2025
Would take again

Her lectures are very good! She has group projects and she does something when someone in your group who is trying to take all of the credit. She is very nice and she gives good feedback.

Gives good feedback
Caring
Respected
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BADM449
Grade: A
Oct 11, 2025

Don't take her class. She's not the most reasonable grader and unwilling to hear student perspectives. She singles students out all the time. Lacks passion about the course content. It's time to retire.

Tough grader
Get ready to read
Test heavy
5.0
2.0
BADM449
Grade: A
Nov 23, 2025
Would take again

Professor really tries to keep us thinking. She asks interesting questions and get us involved in lectures. Group projects!

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