Ok firm to settle at, terrible for your future or growth - Software Engineer IXL Learning Employee Review

2.0
Oct 30, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some nice people here and there, decent work life balance, and relatively low stakes due to decent business outcomes. I would only choose IXL if you have absolutely no other options, or if you're more senior looking to settle in non-tech.

Cons

Zero sense of collaboration or good industry practices. New acquisitions except TPT retained nearly zero engineers. Fear-based culture keeps people from speaking up about issues. New hires are almost exclusively international graduates with Master's degrees from top schools, but in practice are incredibly incompetent and difficult to coach (which is why I suppose they didn't have any other choices). Despite trying to push new tech, code suffers from incredibly poor practices due to rubber-stamping PR culture. The few people that tried to do anything about it received backlash from management and have since departed the company. Leadership insists on getting a say on every new thing delivered to product, so we have almost zero autonomy. Poor compensation. Glad to be leaving soon.

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5.0
Jul 10, 2026
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Pros

Great food great location and I love the mentorship

Cons

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2.0
Jul 7, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Depending on the team, you can have a good work/life balance - Given they hire a lot of new grads who are building a community in the area, it's pretty easy to get involved in social groups and make friends in the office

Cons

- Depending on the team, you may have poor work/life balance - Top-down culture - many typical responsibilities a given role would have (at least in engineering or product) in other companies are separated out. While not necessarily good or bad, it can catch people who are used to more autonomy in their decisions off-guard - Slow growth trajectory in roles and experience / learning which can be unfortunate for those starting off in their careers - Immature feedback / leveling loop - It was fairly common that people got feedback or temperature checks from more casual conversations with peers or other teams rather than formal reviews or manager conversations

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