Good place to work - Animator Duolingo Employee Review

4.0
12 Sept 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay and benefits for an art role. Coworkers are talented and kind Nice work life balance, very rarely do I work past 5/6

Cons

Future planning seems disorganized sometimes. Company will rapidly change direction and everyone will have to change what their working on to accommodate.

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5.0
21 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Mission, smart and kind people, great work, hard working teams focused on results and delivering against an awesome mission. People push themselves and each other to learn and grow. Swarms of smart and creative problem solvers.

Cons

Small number of people are unhappy and instead of leaving they complain. A lot. I think it's like this everywhere but in a smaller company you feel it.

2.0
22 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good culture, great product, strong sense of ownership at all levels

Cons

Senior leadership has not found their rhythm. CEO calls pretty much all the shots. Engineering leadership is often invisible and lacks a cohesive tech strategy. Tech debt runs incredibly hot at this company and it often takes a major outage (did I mention CEO frequently joins the war rooms?) to get anything prioritized.

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