Started great and has steadily declined - Support Engineer Instructure Employee Review

3.0
Oct 30, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Stocked kitchens and beautiful office with scenic views in great part of town, MacBooks and options to WFH during COVID, weekly catered lunches, access to ski passes and great incentives to have a gym membership.

Cons

The pay is not competitive whatsoever for Support (bottom 10% of industry) despite being the back bone of Canvas and the contact facing side for end-users such as school administration, teachers, students, and sometimes parents. No replacement for employee stock program when company went private and was bought out and, as of 2 days ago, benefits restructuring for 2021 that overhauls major points of employee happiness - i.e. employer-paid insurance premiums, remote till July 2021 (which is mostly due to COVID, but no increase in pay for lost in-office benefits that many accept pay cuts for), and 401k match is much, much lower than other companies of its caliber (50% match up to 4%, most companies match 100% up to 6%). Support seems to be the separated from the rest of the company in work-life balance and in terms of competitive wages. Moving up in the company is also *extremely* difficult and rare.

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Pros

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Cons

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Jun 22, 2026
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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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