TryHackMe Reviews

That latitude quietly disappears. Over time, the environment shifts from "we value your expertise" to something far more controlled and far less honest. Expectations escalate without corresponding support, resources, or recognition. When things go wrong, accountability moves in one direction only — downward. Leadership's relationship with feedback is performative. Concerns are heard, acknowledged, and filed away. Nothing structurally changes. Goalposts move. Verbal promises are seldom honoured in practice. For anyone used to working in an environment where commitment means something, this is deeply frustrating. The co-founder dynamic is a known issue at this point, and the recent reviews on here reflect what many of us have observed for some time: aggressive messaging, inconsistent treatment depending on whether you're currently in favour, and a communication style that would not survive scrutiny in a professionally governed organisation. Senior people who push back or set boundaries do not tend to stay long — whether by choice or otherwise. The pattern is consistent and well-documented at this point: people who push back, set limits, or stop being convenient are quietly removed. It does not matter how strong their output is or how long they have been there. When the wind changes, it changes fast — and the process used to move people out is dressed up in language that obscures what is actually happening. The talent at this company is exceptional. It is being wasted.

Most of the content now is AI made, lowering the value of the platform content. The work culture is deeply unhealthy, leading to severe burnout and exhaustion. Due to lack of employees protection laws, the work culture tends to overwork employees in third world countries. The founder promotes a "founder mode" that translates to extreme micromanagement of both minor design choices and major strategic decisions. Employees are routinely overworked, underpaid relative to their hours, and expected to be present on Slack after hours. Furthermore, there is severe operational negligence in HR, including payroll and tax errors that resulted in UK employees unexpectedly owing thousands of pounds. Even worse is the deceptive behavior from leadership regarding ethical data usage. When concerns were raised internally and publicly about user data being used to train this new AI agent, the founder labeled these concerns "misinformation" and explicitly claimed that no TryHackMe data was being used. In direct contradiction to this, the new AI agent's website actively boasts that it uses "millions of user journeys from TryHackMe" to train its model. When community members express discomfort with this, leadership's response has been defensive, with the founder simply telling concerned users to delete their accounts and blocking critics on LinkedIn. Internally, this dismissiveness is mirrored in how staff are treated. Anyone who attempts to set healthy boundaries or maintain a work-life balance is quietly managed out of the company. The founder actively boasts about this intense, fast-paced culture in blogs, attempting to disguise a toxic work environment and 70-hour work weeks as "ambition"