Challenges, frustrations, but with a great team and great management - Senior Software Engineer Instructure Employee Review

5.0
Sep 11, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Lots of challenges in varied areas (planning, feature development, infrastructure management, etc) - Very good compensation and benefits - Great team with a lot of talent (and I actually like them as people as well) - Very good office environment - Ability to work from home when I want - Great talent management and career options - Lots of opportunities for professional development - Good and no-nonsense tech stack - Our customers actually like us most of the time - Hack weeks! Pandamonium! Avocode!

Cons

- Lots of tech debt and backlog - RoR stack frustrating at times (but we're slowly migrating away from that) - Sometimes abrupt and unexpected changes in personnel on the US front - The usual throes of a startup migrating to an enterprise

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Pros

Good Culture Flexible Time Off

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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