CodeAI reviews about "benefit"

Upbeat, team environment where everyone strives to do their best in a mission driven environment. Benefits are outstanding compared to most non-profits. Leadership is transparent and eager to interact with employees at all levels.

I have worked at Code.org for half a decade, and I still love it. I get to help students and teachers learn and use the power of computer science. Computer science can be used in about a million ways, which means we get to work on all kinds of fun things. From Dance Party to AI for Oceans to all of our labs and Hour of Code activities, I have had the opportunity to work on so many fun and interesting tools and curriculum. My favorite part of the job is visiting schools for playtesting and Hour of Code events. Going to classrooms, the kids and teachers have so much energy and excitement. I love it. It's also inspiring to have learning, not profit, as our primary indicator of success. I find myself motivated to increase access and participation by every student, especially those who traditionally haven't had as much opportunity or encouragement. Our team is diverse and amazingly talented. We take our work seriously but never ourselves. We have a lot of fun, and I appreciate the open invitation to be yourself. If you like to dance while you talk on a zoom call, dance. If you are a pajama person, pajamas are fine. You are free to be who you are. The work-life balance here is amazing. I can always have my evenings and weekends free for my family and me. The leadership team cares about each employee and does a respectable job trying to grow and care for our entire team. It's a relatively small company, and each of us is cared about as a person. Working at a remote-first company has given me more time in my day to be with my family and take care of myself. It has also cut down on gas and food costs. It's also allowed my family to move from a high cost of living area to a lower cost of living area, making those retirement goals much more attainable. Compensation at Code.org is not high by tech standards, but it certainly is by non-profit standards. Our benefits and perks are also very good. I have had opportunities to leave Code.org, but I still find myself excited by our mission and happy to be part of this team. I have been lucky enough to have had some bad work situations to appreciate what a gem this place is and what a wonderful thing we are trying to accomplish.

- Compensation and benefits comparable to private industry - Mission-focused - Smart and passionate colleagues - work-life balance

You will work with really talented people, at least until they burn out from the poor management. Salaries are okay for non-profit/education, if you are working remote in an area that has a lower cost of living than Seattle, and good benefits across the board. Long-term funding is assured because of the organization's commitment to aligning with the goals of Big Tech. Disorganization in management means you can often do a lot of good here in spite of the leadership's actions. Because of the high turnover, you will have contacts in multiple organizations across the computer science education community if you stay at the company for more than a couple years.

Most important: Positive impact on millions of students and teachers, as advertised. Good management sets clear goals and empowers the team, delegates well, rarely micromanages. All code is open-source on GitHub, which feels good and makes a great addition to a portfolio. Lots of opportunity to contribute back to the open-source community as we work. Continuous integration with automated testing allows us to ship daily, and we're always improving our tools and automating more. We own what we ship, and rotate responsibility for deployments and live-site issues daily. Typical dev is on call one day every couple of weeks, very rarely gets paged. Pay and benefits are more than appropriate to local cost-of-living, have adjusted accordingly over time. Very flexible work-from-home policy.