Don't drink the KoolAid - this company is not perfect at all (far from it) - Anonymous employee Teachable Employee Review

1.0
Jun 8, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The diverse culture was nice. There were a lot of non-binary people at the company and everyone is very respectful of pronouns. There were a lot of amazing people at the company and I made friends with people that I'll know the rest of my life. I did get great experience, though it felt like at a very large cost.

Cons

The workload is unmanageable. Pretty much every department is under-resourced and understaffed. Despite being owned by $1B-valuation company Hotmart, so little money and resources have been funneled to Teachable. It's laughable and a very bad omen that this acquisition was not a good fit. Also, if you want career progression, look elsewhere. There are occasional opportunities to move departments, but if you want to advance in particular department, there are no HR processes in place to do this. The HR team is still relatively new and is pretty small, so they aren't equipped to handle the stage the company is in and it shows. Salaries are notoriously low across the board in all departments. I learned this from people in other departments my first month and saw no mention it from leadership nor any action on this whatsoever. The founder is no longer involved at all, so the company has no guiding light or real principles that serve as a foundation upon which the company operates. Hard work is not recognized whatsoever If you work hard, you will not see a raise for it nor should you expect career growth as a result. There seemed to be no point to go above and beyond because there were no incentives to do so. If you learn anything from this review, learn this: they will always put the creator (the client) first, even above the wellbeing or consideration of the employees. People have lost jobs at the company (or become burnt out) because of this extremely toxic and extremely misguided mindset. If you don't believe me on this *very important* point, ask a few ex-Teachable people on LinkedIn.

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Teachable Response
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Hi there. Thank you for taking time to write such detailed feedback about your experience at Teachable. We are incredibly sad to hear that despite enjoying the diverse culture and your coworkers, that it was ultimately a challenging environment for you. We're incredibly proud of all of the Teachable employees that helped get us to this phase of growth and recognize that as the company grows, employees want to experience growth in their roles and careers as well. We are sorry to hear you felt that growth opportunities were not available to you. We're working hard to create clear career trajectories within Teachable's departments to build more opportunities for promotions and advancement. We appreciate your candor regarding compensation as we always want to make sure that our team feels valued and recognize that compensation is an important part of that. Our People team routinely performs labor market research to ensure that we are offering competitive compensation and benefits packages as well as routinely offering opportunities to earn raises and increases. We hope that this, combined with a great team, will encourage the right people to join us. Thank you again for your thoughtful feedback if you have further advice we are always looking to grow and improve so feel free to contact peopleops@teachable.com.

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