Great culture, stressful growth
Pros
- Amazing education products that receives consistent praise from teachers and students. Makes you feel like you're making a difference. - Passionate coworkers who deeply care about education. - Great comraderie and excellent inter-team communications. Coworkers will jump across team and department lines to help with something. This is especially notable when a crisis hits as it truly feels like everyone is helping, even if it's not their problem. - Excellent PTO (you get 1wk+ personal leave, 1wk sick leave, 2wk vacation leave that scales quickly with tenure). - Excellent workplace diversity. DEI program impacts notwithstanding, the company has always seen a diverse mix of people from different parts of the world, and people (including the CEO) are culturally curious and willing to embrace new ideas.
Cons
- Pay is below market average and managers struggle to offer competitive salaries even when they really want to hire/keep someone. - Engineering team has not kept up with growth and is over-burdened and over-stressed to make do with what resources they have. Ed-tech has seen explosive growth since the pandemic began. And while every other department has doubled or tripled in size, engineering has lost more key employees than it gained. We're hemorraging knowledge and expertise at a moment when our product line and customer base is rapidly expanding. This will have severe long-term consequences for the business.
