Pluralsight reviews

=> B2B customers are king. If a B2B customer waves enough money in Pluralsight's face, Pluralsight will bend over backwards and step on engineering practices to get it done. Individual customers (B2C customers) *might* get to gnaw on the scraps of that work, but usually not, because it's mostly team management features. Pluralsight is supposed to be about democratizing tech skills, but it doesn't, and it doesn't care. I get that the company has to make money, but Pluralsight needs to stop pretending like it is democratizing literally anything at all. It is a B2B company. => Pluralsight's marketing team will put out all sorts of graphics and motivational content about how to treat your employees well, including things like focusing on mental health, and about how it costs a lot more to lose an employee and have to retrain a new one than it does to promote and pay your current employees what they're worth. The material is all spot on and totally accurate, but it's pure hypocrisy as Pluralsight would literally rather have every single employee leave than promote anyone outside of their very narrow, very limited promotions programs, and Pluralsight has recently slashed benefits for covering mental health visits. => Much of middle management is all over the place. Pluralsight struggles to find the balance between what the business thinks should be a priority and what the team thinks should be a priority. The executive team doesn't release company OKRs until weeks or months after teams are supposed to have defined theirs for the same quarter or half. Certain leaders will attempt to own things they shouldn't, and most will explode the scope of a given project well beyond where it should be. A LOT of people who went into management because it's the only other way they could "move up", who are otherwise really REALLY not good at managing people. => Pluralsight is hemorrhaging employees. There are entire development teams that have zero engineers, or just one, who is brand new. These are teams that work on *extremely important* parts of the product which, if they broke, would have devastating customer affects. But not B2B teams, so Pluralsight doesn't care. => I can't stress it enough. If a B2B customer sneezed, Pluralsight will hire a team of 8-10 net new people to make them a Kleenex, while teams with 1-3 people on it are being told "there isn't budget" and to "create with possibility" and be "accountable for excellence". The burnout at Pluralsight is so heavy, many new employees get in, see what's going on, and leave within a few months. => In a lot of ways Pluralsight really tries to celebrate diversity, however depending on the manager, some female employees and people of color who are being very poorly treated are told by their manager to be problem solvers and deal with it in their own. Yikes. => In the last 1-2 years Pluralsight has removed just about every benefit that made them stand out. When asked about it, the people team simply responded they were adjusting to meet what "the market" is doing. When asked if any of those lost benefits would be replaced with others, they gave everyone a 5% increase in bonus (makes up for a very small amount of benefits lost), and then went on to talk about how the "intangibles" (literally the term they used) of Pluralsight are what help it stand out. Things like how it innovates in the market, provides growth opportunities, opportunities to collaborate on interesting problems. All things that literally every other company has, and most other companies do better than Pluralsight ever has. Ask any individual contributor whether Pluralsight's "intangibles" have benefitted them, and at least 75% of the time they will tell you no. => Executive level gaslighting has become the name of the game at Pluralsight. Things every employee sees with their own eyes are either disregarded, explained away, or outright denied by the executive team. Employees were told for years (basically) "sure we don't pay as much as some competitors, but consider your 'Total Rewards', which includes equity and free health insurance", and now employees have gone from being "shareholders" (under PS as a public company) to being asked how they can continue to deliver value to shareholders (Vista) (yikes), and health insurance was suddenly ripped away (effectively a massive pay cut to every single employee). Employees were told the people team was developing a program which would incentivize tenure with the company, *then* they turned around and said it was for VP level employees and higher (yikes). => All the above and more is causing everyone to be significantly stressed. I know employees who have been told off and belittled by their managers in meetings in front of their whole team because of simple, human communication mistakes, this primarily because those managers themselves are being yelled out by their own managers. When the health insurance changes took place, loads of employees voiced publicly how they weren't going to be able to afford going to therapy anymore (Pluralsight claims to care a lot about mental health).