No culture, lack of upper management presence - Anonymous employee IXL Learning Employee Review

2.0
11 July 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Salary and benefits were good Lots of very smart people working there New office Free drinks

Cons

Everything else: No advancement unless you work all day every day and you think like management No room for new innovation In the business of making money and not of helping students actually learn and think More concerned with getting more users, producing pre-formatted content, than with thinking of new or better content Management makes decisions without involving teams at all No communication from CEO, has no social skills Company culture is non existent because there is no example or encouragement from upper management People working for some months become 'Managers' simply because they were hired first. They turn out to have zero managing experience or skills. No training for this it seems.

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Pros

- Depending on the team, you can have a good work/life balance - Given they hire a lot of new grads who are building a community in the area, it's pretty easy to get involved in social groups and make friends in the office

Cons

- Depending on the team, you may have poor work/life balance - Top-down culture - many typical responsibilities a given role would have (at least in engineering or product) in other companies are separated out. While not necessarily good or bad, it can catch people who are used to more autonomy in their decisions off-guard - Slow growth trajectory in roles and experience / learning which can be unfortunate for those starting off in their careers - Immature feedback / leveling loop - It was fairly common that people got feedback or temperature checks from more casual conversations with peers or other teams rather than formal reviews or manager conversations

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