Codecademy Reviews

- CEO is not operationally involved in the business and has had a track record of hiring bad leaders that have either (a) quit/gotten fired or (b) are actively running the business into the ground (Product) - Company has no coherent strategy on how to grow and PMs/managers are inept - Terrible HR track record - not firing soon enough, promoting the wrong people, pushing out people who were good, not promoting people due to stupid made-up rules, etc. - Extremely limited growth opportunities for people who already know the basics of their function.

Absent, inexperienced CEO. Codecademy is at a point where the company desperately needs someone to step into an operational leadership role before the company is run to the grown by inexperienced "executives". Uncertainty around the direction of the product. The ed tech space in incredibly crowded, and Codecademy needs to figure out what the core product really is to be able to develop a sustainable business model. Power mongering politics exist at the VP level, and favoritism runs rampant. At times, senior team members and executive abusively speak down to their colleagues or suborindates and no one bats an eye. Curriculum team is treated like second class citizens, yet they're responsible for creating the content that brings in money. Engineers and product managers are put on pedestals. Very high turnover, including many of the individuals most passionate about the mission. Lack of growth or mobility opportunities. A big reason so many team members leave at the 1-2 year mark. Lack of company values. We added a "bar raiser" interview which negatively impacted hiring and made many feel that they weren't good enough to work for Codecademy anymore. Lack of work-life balance. DO NOT mention work life balance, you will be shunned and considered an underperformer.