Horrible Company - Software Engineer Wayground Employee Review

1.0
Oct 5, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good set of benefits that everyone can enjoy. Good salary, the cash specifically is good, equity is bad and has no value for the longest time to come. The folks around, humble and talented.

Cons

This company is run by leaders who micromanage every little thing. They hire great people and then don’t let them do their jobs. Eventually, those people either burn out or quit. Layoffs happen every year, and they’re always called “restructuring.” The recent one in Sales wiped out many good folks. There’s no job security here — people work in fear, always wondering who’s next. The leadership team is completely disconnected from reality. They make terrible business decisions and quickly blame others when things go wrong. They care only about money, not about the people who actually make things happen. Engineering has some really capable folks, but they’re stuck in chaos. Projects are started and shut down randomly. Leaders can’t stick to one direction, and only a handful of “old” employees get any real recognition and are heard.. There’s no flexibility & work-from-home is only for favorites. Everyone else is forced to show up in the office, even when there’s nothing productive to do. In the past few months alone, so many good folks, I would go to an extent to call them industry's best, have left — Engineering Managers, the Head of TA, Sales Leader — basically anyone good has walked away or thinking about it. That says alot about this place. This company looks great from the outside but is a complete mess inside. Don’t fall for the promises — it’s a trap.

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5.0
Feb 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Wayground is at a stage where you can have real ownership and make a tangible impact. People are trusted to take initiative, improve processes, and help shape how the company scales.

Cons

As with any fast-growing company, some processes and structure are still evolving. This can require flexibility and comfort with ambiguity, but it also creates opportunities to step up, lead initiatives, and directly influence how things are built.

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2.0
Apr 11, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

For an Ed-tech company, the base pay is better than most. Product is amazing, and product team is very responsive to customer needs. Product team is the best thing about this place. Fully remote, with quarterly(ish) in-person meetings. The company has always been scrappy and that was ok, because systems were always being built and employees had autonomy to build those systems and structures (this has since changed, and those structures that were built have now fallen by the wayside. It all started with the rebrand and when they brought in the new CRO and let go of SO MANY AMAZING PEOPLE.)

Cons

Like I said above, things were always a bit scrappy here and it still felt like a startup, but people truly cared about education, the product, and slowly making the structures better. That COMPLETELY CHANGED when they brought in a new CRO and fired half of the US team, including leaders who were instrumental in making these internal processes better. After they laid people off, the CEO met with the rest of the company in a Zoom and it was the most heartless “speech” I’ve ever heard regarding laying off so many people. Just talking about how excited he was for this change. They brought in tons of sales people and BDRs, and honestly, the heart has just completely left this company. It’s gone. I hope they can find it again. (That actually probably started when Deepak, the co-founder, left a little over a year ago. He was likely the heart of the company). Everything is reactive. Honestly, it has always been this way a bit, but now with the CRO it has gotten 200x worse. No forethought into anything. Even the quarterly in-person meetings are planned with 3-4 weeks' notice. So you end up having to reschedule your life and important meetings to be there. Things are promised and not followed up on. People are numbers. They have raised prices a ton just in the last year, with schools and districts in deficits and struggling to keep their own teams. They couldn't care less, completely greedy. The CEO wants one thing only, and that’s $$. I’d say, get out of the education world if that’s your goal. My advice is, if you’re looking to come to this company any time around the date of this post, run. Unless you’re completely desperate and just need a job, and this is all you can find… RUN.

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