Mission focused and impactful company with a great product and inviting culture - Anonymous employee Quizlet Employee Review

5.0
Feb 22, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Quizlet has great people across functions and orgs. The company attracts high caliber technical talent which is complemented by talented business functions tied together by a strong management team. The culture is inviting, and open and the team has done a great job of maintaining its core ethos as an organization while growing as a business and bringing in people from all kinds of backgrounds. Being in EdTech it attracts more socially conscious individuals than your average Silicon Valley startup which can be a change of pace for some. The management team is mindful of aligning with employees long term ambitions and makes a genuine effort to setup individuals with opportunities that interest them. The pace of work is fast and the level of responsibility given to individuals considerable making Quizlet an attractive place for anyone looking to have high impact and seeking meaningful and substantive work experience.

Cons

Culture can be a little too consensus driven at times which can slow down decision making but in Quizlet's defense every company struggles to find the right balance of bottoms up democracy versus top done dictates.

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Cons

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Pros

There was a community of talented, caring individuals (ICs and middle management) who supported each other and were passionate about shipping quality features for Quizlet's users.

Cons

- There has been no strategy for years. If there ever is one, it veers mid-quarter. Work assignments veer accordingly. Then leadership blames anyone but themselves when productivity tanks. - The CEO and his army of VPs brought "Amazon/Google accountability" to engineering, and want to drive out what they see as a bunch of low performers. They demonstrate zero ability to distinguish between "low performer" and "mvp". So they drove out most of the mvps. That's in consumer experience engineering btw. There is a smoking crater where the Data & AI org used to be. - The CPO did nothing for years except kill the ideas of his product managers. No ideas, no direction, no support. - Leadership has massive fomo about alleged AI productivity. They measure it with poorly correlated metrics like commits, PRs, lines of code written etc. They keep deciding they haven't replaced enough "low performers" with AI. They’re desperate to drive two or three new features a week, and so they have driven the company into the ground.

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