great coworkers terrible management - Curriculum Designer IXL Learning Employee Review

- Top management dismisses employee insight on a wide range of issues such as product design. They are also suspicious of drawing on user feedback, even on obvious needed fixes. For example, whether to come up with a scoring system that does not pointlessly frustrate students and seems to them to rank their "smartness" (seriously, the student scoring system is called a smartscore, which any educator trained in the last 40 years would roll their eyes at). - CEO shows little interest in inclusivity or encouraging diversity. At a company town hall about why the company would not share diversity statistics, he said he was primarily interested in promoting "cognitive diversity." However, there was little willingness to actually listen to other perspectives in product design. - Little input from educators into how the product should develop. This leads to strange decisions for an ed tech company, like spending years putting resources into a bad flash card site, only to drop the product entirely once it became apparent that teachers had no interest in a less functional version of Quizlet. - Sudden changes in direction have led to layoffs over the last two years.