An excellent company, until Dan Goldsmith took over - Software Engineer Instructure Employee Review

1.0
Jan 26, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive pay, reasonable benefits, and perks. Prior to recent changes, the company culture made this an excellent place to work.

Cons

Unfortunately, since Dan Goldsmith took over the company has been incredibly poorly managed and is now going downhill at a rapid pace. Way to much money spent on salaries for middle management while support and engineering suffer. Bridge was an excellent product that they spent years developing, and then they dropped it mere months after trying to sell it. It's like they spent an entire season planting crops, waited til they were half-grown, then said "whelp, we haven't sold any yet" and set fire to the whole field. The culture was excellent and the company was making excellent gains until about a year and a half ago when Josh Coates stepped down. A really disappointing end to what used to be a great company to work for.

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Pros

Good Culture Flexible Time Off

Cons

Running Lean Lots of Turnover

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3.0
Jun 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very nice co-workers Benefits are at least average Work life balance is ok, flexible time off and decent holidays Don’t have to work that hard, great place to retire Focused on AI though the foundations for it aren’t there - as if we’re trying to check the box for a board

Cons

Pretty much a start up with terrible systems and processes Little to no investment in any supporting functions rooted in the TB days of prioritizing margin Cross-functional work is disorganized with horrible change management Complacency across the board. Seems like the old people are just waiting for their equity to vest, doing the absolute bare minimum Clearly an edtech company which feels a lot like what the government must be like Atrocious decision making Senior leaders care more about politics and their own egos than making the company better. Like everyone has an agenda I cannot imagine worse systems setup or data

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