A place to work on meaningful things - Senior Software Engineer Instructure Employee Review

5.0
Sep 7, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

It can be quite challenging to work on services used by tens of millions of students and educators all over the world. For a person who is willing to take on responsibility, I think Instructure can be a highly rewarding place to work at. It is amongst the highest paying software companies in Budapest, offers ESPP, company lunch on Wednesdays, private healthcare, fridges full of snacks and drinks, latest Macbook pro, Herman Miller chairs, also you can choose from remote/hybrid/in-office options

Cons

Instructure was acquired by Thoma Bravo and let lots of employees go back in 2020 to become a leaner organisation, negative reviews related to that still pulls down the public opinion of the company. On-call rotation can be unpleasant on smaller teams, although getting paged for most services are quite rare. Some teams are working on legacy things with older technologies, although e.g. one of the teams are currently replacing a Ruby service with Java, I think that's a nice initiative.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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