Getting back on track - Anonymous employee GoGuardian Employee Review

4.0
9 Oct 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

New CEO is showing the company some MUCH NEEDED tough love. Gone are the days of frivolous pet projects, over hiring, and coddling/tolerating entitled employees. There's much more discipline today with a emphasis on becoming a healthy company focused on the opportunity in front of us (not tilting at windmills and moonshots). Our new leaders talk openly about the challenges in front of us, and don't sugar coat bad news. Working in K12 is a challenging and reward market to serve - we have great products and our customers love using them. Most of the employees here are exceptional and dedicated, and after weathering a few tough years, it feels like we're starting to work together as a team. I'm optimistic about the future and feel like we have the building blocks for helping schools for many years to come.

Cons

Our leadership team still needs stronger industry leadership with deeper education experience. Sometimes we still find the need to reinvent the wheel simply because we don't have the required experience to get to the right answers quickly.

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5.0
27 Jan 2026
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Pros

- great energy through out the company regardless of title or tenure - no burn out - I feel valuable and that my work is impactful

Cons

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2.0
21 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The product is fundamentally good. The cause is fundamentally good. The people you work with directly are great. Because the consumers are primarily government entities it is a very stable business model.

Cons

Management has no respect or concern for people who work here. Employees are disposable and there has been at least one layoff each year for the past three years. This usually is presented as “we didn’t have the right team” or “plans didn’t work out” and the usual cut and paste explanations. In spite of being told the company is very profitable, raises did not happen for a while and the most recent one is barely a cost of living adjustment. Promotions have also not happened and many people are doing a different more senior role with the title they started with during the pandemic era hiring boom. Senior leadership is detached, unaware of projects in flight, and unfamiliar with the products to the point they will suggest new initiatives that are for things we already have. Most of them come from very large companies and try to act as if we have the same headcount, resources, and consumer base as a multinational B2C and are seemingly confused and unhappy when things don’t work out the way they expected.

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