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Education.com

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Education.com Reviews

4.6

94% would recommend to a friend

(27 total reviews)

Rich Yang

65% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Education.com has an employee rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 27 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Education.com employee rating is 23% above average for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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27 reviews
1.0
6 Jan 2021

IXL removes negative reviews of education.com

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Used to be full of mission-driven, hard-working individuals that cared about each other and the kids

Cons

After being bought by IXL in Nov 2020 everything went downhill. In April IXL laid off almost all edcom employees, at the start of lockdown, after stating many times they were going to keep edcom as an autonomous company. They showed no sympathy or consideration for employees, many who had been at edcom for many years. To learn more about IXL, just google them. The shadiness of their business practices and the terrible "kill and drill" aspect of the product makes it hated by kids and teachers everywhere. Jen and Paul micromanage everything. They do not allow teams to have any autonomy in building or designing products. The pay is low and the company will always be privately owned by Paul and Jen. If you want to have no input in your work and just keep your head down and execute orders like bootlicker then go for it. Otherwise, be warned. Paul and Jen (the leaders) are trash, and sadly so is Rich. On top of that, they have deleted (which is supposed to be against glassdoor rules) all negative reviews of edcom. There are so many better edtech companies to choose from.

4.0
13 July 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. The People - You will not find another group of 50 like minded individuals with a crazy (and sometime border line inappropriate) sense of humor, charisma, and spunk like you would at Education. All my co-workers has become like a second (well, really 3rd, 4th) family to me after working here for the past 4 plus years. 2. The Environment - The new office in San Mateo is an open office environment and everyone can go up to people to chat, ask questions, and to think. Once in a while you get an all out nerf gun fight, but it is nicer to be able to see who is in the office in one glance instead of walking through a dark and narrow corridor to find engineering. 3. The Dogs - I became a dog person after working here. If you love dogs, you'll love it here as we rotate who brings in their dog on a daily basis. 4. The Mission - Go read the mission statement. This company strives to achieve the goal that they set in the statement and are they doing a darn good job of it.

Cons

1. Commute - I come from the South Bay, so commuting is a pain when access to CalTrain is a bit far. Driving every day to work can be rough and counterproductive to yourself. 2. Manpower - This is a very small company, less than 50 people in total. With that being said, a lot of employees are not just doing one job. You get pulled into / volunteered into helping different departments. It gets hard to juggle all the responsibilities when your deadline(s) are looming.

5.0
4 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. The people genuinely care for the company and the people there. 2. The company supports a healthy lifestyle with healthy snacks, onsite yoga classes, and actually encouraging you to take yoga class or take PTO as needed. They seriously won't judge you for taking doing what you need to do to take care of yourself. 3. At such a small company, you have the potential to make huge impact. They are agile so things ship out relatively fast. The things you make help millions of teachers and parents world-wide. 4. The convenience of Caltrain & the amazing food selection downtown is amazing.

Cons

If you live in SF, San Mateo is a little far. BUT Caltrain is right there and many people in the company live in SF/San Jose and make it work.

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