Quizlet reviews

2.4

22% would recommend to a friend

(124 total reviews)
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Kurt Beidler

23% approve of CEO

10% positive business outlook

Quizlet has an employee rating of 2.4 out of 5 stars, based on 124 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Quizlet employee rating is 38% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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124 reviews
1.0
Aug 1, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Decently sized company without being too big. Company infrastructure is mature.

Cons

Weird culture that wants you to 100% drink the kool aid: eat, sleep, breathe Quizlet. Very bureaucratic. Managers are robotic and impersonal. Upper management seems to be grasping at straws for a new direction to take the product. It's unclear whether there is a bright future for the evolution of a product serving mostly free users who use the product for flashcards which is how the product started originally. Students generally don't have much disposable income. Interviewed then onboarded with a team for a month. At the end of that month, Quizlet had layoffs and a reorg that resulted in me being switched to a completely different team where I began onboarding again. There was no training in either case. Just a link to 100's of pages of documentation on Jira. The long time CEO resigned right after these layoffs saying that he didn't want to be a part of the next lifecycle stage of the company which he described as a "large Silicon Valley corporation". The code base is old and dense. I was told I didn't need to know PHP (old backend language used in the product) but then was given a handful of tasks where I needed to know PHP. Salary was mediocre and less than what was stated on the JD.

1.0
Jun 16, 2026

Game over

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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.

1.0
Jun 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Mediocre food, but filled me.

Cons

The company suffers from a profound lack of strategic direction, characterized by the complete absence of a viable vision or long-term roadmap. Operational workflows are subjected to erratic, unstructured changes that fail to drive any measurable improvement—a direct result of deficient product management and operational leadership. Rather than addressing these systemic, top-down deficiencies, executive management routinely deflects accountability by scapegoating the general staff. Compounding this internal collapse, the company is in a severe financial tailspin, registering negative performance across every key financial and growth metric. This operational incompetence has fueled a relentless, five-year downward trajectory with no bottom in sight.

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