Top Hat Reviews

Pros

This is by far my favourite company I've worked at. I enjoy going to work every day and genuinely enjoy all the time I spend here. The people here are fantastic and talented. The people I work with are all people I want to spend time with outside of work; and do! I've made plenty of good friends while working here. The work is fulfilling, as we are actually building something of significance. You can go on classroom...

Cons

The product team sometimes has difficulty seeing a feature through to full completion because they want to focus on the next big thing. This can be frustrating to watch.

Advice to Management

See new features through to completion! It's better to have 5 amazing products/features than 20 half-finished features!

Pros

- Decent salary - Good work life balance (in engineering at least, YMMV in other departments) - Good opportunities for growth

Cons

- Frequent reorgs/changes from upper management

Pros

The mission of the organization: Top Hat focuses on making teaching fun an effective. What it means by that is changing the university experience from old school lecture environment to active learning, focusing on student outcomes and engagement before, during, and after class. In addition to that, the organization is striving to make education more affordable to facilitate learning. In essence, what this does is making...

Cons

Our weak points are on the flip side of our strengths. Change management: Change management efforts have been developed over time, however, there is an opportunity to work on change management practices further to continue a rollout of new initiatives at a proper pace. We need to make change management more methodical to continue to succeed. Infrastructure: There is an opportunity to develop infrastructure further...

Advice to Management

Continue transparency Focus on developing people within the organization Continue developing the strategic plan and communicating it using a variety of channels Develop key infrastructure for success

Pros

Great people. Teams on the AM side were great, inclusive, energetic and helpful. Catered lunches were great and the building itself had a ton of amenities. Very smart individual contributors on the eng, and dev team.

Cons

Very confusing goals, very micrometric driven. This made it feel very robotic and nonstrategic. Constant change. Commission, targets, and company direction. High turnover

Advice to Management

Look at outside leadership with backgrounds similar to the CRO. This gives a fresh perspective from management that have implemented strategies that differ from the TH norm. Define clear career growth opportunities that don't always lead to team leads or management

Pros

Hands-on experience, good office space

Cons

People work too hard. pressure to do the same

Pros

Top Hat has become very quick to evolve and adjust based on employee feedback. It has become one of the leading tech companies in Toronto to develop sales talent. The number one focus of the CRO has been employee experience; therefore he got the entire leadership team to constantly look for feedback and figure out ways to improve. The leadership team then adjusts almost immediately to any large challenges. The...

Cons

The go-to-market approach has continued to evolve meaning the sales floor has to learn a ton of new skills which can be challenging at times but is also beneficial in the long run. To succeed, you likely have to work more than just 9-5 or be super efficient with your time.

Advice to Management

Trying to plan & strategize further in advance. Keep listening to your employees, we greatly appreciate it!

Pros

Good office place, good location, catered lunch

Cons

Avoid applying or working for this place if you identify as a poc or lgbt

Advice to Management

HR should go through some cultural sensitivity training and actually gain some perspective

Pros

So the pros that have been listed throughout a number of the postings are true. They have a great lunch and beer cart Friday, basically, if you lived in a frat house in college and miss that environment since you've come into the work world this is definitely the place for you.

Cons

If you've ever been in an abusive relationship where they degrade you and the effort you put in (not enough dials means you're lazy rather than strategic), tell you-you're not up to their standards (not aggressive enough in your close/weren't enough of a challenger), try to control your time (No WFH policy to ensure you're tied to the desk), environment and who you socialize with but then just when you're ready to leave...

Advice to Management

Find some way to cash out cause you're losing market position quickly. You will be taken over by an institutional player in short order because the product isn't that differentiated that it can't be replicated and last time I checked Pearson or Mcgraw-Hill isn't banned on like 10% of campuses