No longer a good company to work for - L1 Tech Support Engineer Instructure Employee Review

1.0
Jun 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

you get paid on time. Can work remote. Most coworkers are friendly and helpful.

Cons

Underpaid, as an L1 you are expected to provide support for both Canvas AND Portfolium, but you are not fairly compensated for supporting two platforms. Some supervisors are very pro micro-managing Depending on your supervisor you may be guilt-tripped for taking a break. Turnover is becoming a big problem, a lot of tenured agents are leaving. Very little chance to move-up. They love to hand out fake titles that have no official title change or pay increase, but come with more responsibilities (ex. "L1.5" "coaches" ," acting supervisor" ," Team Lead" ). They are using a new Big Brother system to monitor your "adherence" time in your assigned delegation, but it is buggy so you have to watch it like a hawk to make sure you don't get written up for the tool not functioning correctly. Vacations aren't approved/denied until about 3 weeks before the time is happening. So you don't know whether you are officially approved for the time off until then, makes it very difficult to commit to future vacation plans. They are slowly outsourcing support to Budapest. Mostly only hiring part-time agents in the USA. They are likely going to make USA start paying for their benefits in 2022.

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5.0
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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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