Pros
• Used by 50% of US high school students & 1/3 of US college students
• 18th most visited website in the U.S. 70 million visitors in October 2017
• 20 million mobile downloads on iOS & Android. Users love it because it helps them do well in high school, college, professional studies.
• Company sends engineers, PMs, designers, User Ops and all new hires on classroom visits. Company is really in touch and empathetic with users.
• Strong user growth and very strong revenue growth (doubling)
• Experienced execs joining, turning down offers from mega corps for the opportunity.
• Super-high ratio of users to engineers - almost 1 million to 1. So your work has impact.
• Good engineering systems in place -- pushing server code 10+ times a day, shipping iOS & Android apps every 2 weeks.
• Understand A/B testing - running 10+ at any given time, getting lots of optimization results.
• Clear annual and quarterly goals.
• Huge amount of challenges yet to be solved in engineering & data science. Vast data stores, tens of billions of rows.
• Systems are under high load but mostly stable.
• People are driven by a unified mission - no politics.
• Snacks++
• Benefits improved a lot this year
• If you wear your Quizlet shirt people will come up to you and tell you their personal story of what it means to them and how it helped them.
Cons
• Team is growing fast so new processes often have to be invented on the fly.
• Reaching some scaling inflection points on back-end databases due to huge number of users and data -- we need more back-end & platform engineers
• Major improvement in data tools over last year but need to keep improving these.
