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      3.7

      56% would recommend to a friend

      (8 total reviews)

      Hadi Partovi

      54% approve of CEO

      51% positive business outlook

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      1.0
      Aug 30, 2024

      Pick a different option literally any of them

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Great coworkers Healthcare coverage is really good at least last I knew

      Cons

      In the past few years they have ended almost every unique benefit to working at Code.org over other EdTech companies/non-profits. Just work at one of those. Leadership slashes entire teams and crucial roles. Claiming they're no longer relevant/needed, laying off team members without a chance at working on another team or anything. And then replaces the roles with ever-so-slightly different openings within 6 months. When leaders make mistakes subordinates take the fall while leaders get "learning opportunities". Worklife balance does NOT exist Criticism are taken personally by leaders and then they guilt you for making them feel bad instead of doing anything about the problem

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      CodeAI Response
      1y
      Thank you for sharing your experience. We are glad you enjoyed your coworkers and appreciated our healthcare benefits. We continue to offer fully sponsored health plans and recently increased our sick day policy to 10 per year, allowing team members to take more time to care for themselves and loved ones. We are very sorry to hear about the challenges you faced, particularly around restructuring. While these difficult decisions are made for the organization’s health, we know the experience is tough on everyone involved. While we do our best to handle them with the utmost kindness, respect, and dignity, we know the experience is life-changing. It’s especially hard when no role match is available within the organization. We continue to support interested team members in finding their next role, especially if a restructuring has impacted them. It’s important to monitor Work-life balance as a remote company. While our last engagement survey results show we over-indexed in this area, things may have changed as we sunset our Summer Friday program. We are eager to check in on our team’s experience via our current engagement survey. We encourage any active team members who may be struggling with this to speak to their manager, People Business Partner or raise in a skip-level meeting. Leadership accountability is crucial, and we’re committed to ensuring everyone owns their actions. We encourage you to contact our People & Culture team if you're open to discussing your experience further. We’d love to understand what went wrong here. We are always striving to improve. Thanks again for being part of Code.org and for your feedback.
      5.0
      Jul 6, 2023

      High impact, fast-paced workplace with culture of caring

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Lots of high caliber coworkers. Work life balance is great here, but also you are in a fast-paced environment, with lofty goals (that the company usually achieves) that has changed the education space significantly. The work is interesting and you can learn a lot about how to build impactful and successful products. There is very little bureaucracy - it's easy to get things done quickly. The management team genuinely cares about the employees and spends a lot of time supporting the culture and being flexible to meet folks' needs. One unique thing about working here is that everyone is here to help make the world better - so the culture is very collaborative, not at all competitive and folks are always willing to help each other out. Compensation is reasonable (really good for a non-profit) and competitive for smaller non-public tech companies. And it can be super fun to work on a product that kids and teachers absolutely love!

      Cons

      It's hard to work in the education space, with a mission that focuses on equity in computer science, without also needing to deal with the divisiveness of our political system. If you don't want to deal with politics in the workplace, this may not be the place for you. The leadership holds strongly onto the north star to make sure the primary focus of bringing CS to all kids is achieved, and I think they do this really well for the most part, but it has caused internal conflict as not everyone agrees with some of the rhetoric. But if you look at the actual product of the company - the affected state policies, the curriculum, the marketing, the videos, the software representation, it's clear that this company is having a massive impact on equity in CS education. This political division may be less of an issue now than it was a year ago as the company has tried to address this.

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      CodeAI Response
      2y
      Thank you for the flattering review on our impact! Code.org’s mark on the education space is a credit to our hardworking team. We are fortunate to have high caliber, passionate and dedicated team members that do amazing, high impact work every day. We also appreciate your call out that working in the education space means that Code.org is not immune to politics in the United States. Our mission and work are aimed at schools and this intersects with the public sector. We are committed to addressing the challenges that arise from external factors and continuously finding ways to navigate them, together. It’s not always easy but our values and unifying and inclusive approach (click here for more: https://code.org/about/unifying#:~:text=org's%20work%20opposes%20racism%2C%20sexism,not%20to%20take%20this%20approach.) enable us to make significant progress in bringing computer science to students and teachers on a large scale. Thanks again for all of your many years of service in helping us do just that and sharing your experience!
      5.0
      Aug 18, 2022

      A truly special place to work

      Product designer
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      Pros

      I have worked at Code.org for half a decade, and I still love it. I get to help students and teachers learn and use the power of computer science. Computer science can be used in about a million ways, which means we get to work on all kinds of fun things. From Dance Party to AI for Oceans to all of our labs and Hour of Code activities, I have had the opportunity to work on so many fun and interesting tools and curriculum. My favorite part of the job is visiting schools for playtesting and Hour of Code events. Going to classrooms, the kids and teachers have so much energy and excitement. I love it. It's also inspiring to have learning, not profit, as our primary indicator of success. I find myself motivated to increase access and participation by every student, especially those who traditionally haven't had as much opportunity or encouragement. Our team is diverse and amazingly talented. We take our work seriously but never ourselves. We have a lot of fun, and I appreciate the open invitation to be yourself. If you like to dance while you talk on a zoom call, dance. If you are a pajama person, pajamas are fine. You are free to be who you are. The work-life balance here is amazing. I can always have my evenings and weekends free for my family and me. The leadership team cares about each employee and does a respectable job trying to grow and care for our entire team. It's a relatively small company, and each of us is cared about as a person. Working at a remote-first company has given me more time in my day to be with my family and take care of myself. It has also cut down on gas and food costs. It's also allowed my family to move from a high cost of living area to a lower cost of living area, making those retirement goals much more attainable. Compensation at Code.org is not high by tech standards, but it certainly is by non-profit standards. Our benefits and perks are also very good. I have had opportunities to leave Code.org, but I still find myself excited by our mission and happy to be part of this team. I have been lucky enough to have had some bad work situations to appreciate what a gem this place is and what a wonderful thing we are trying to accomplish.

      Cons

      We are a non-profit that cares about and seeks to address and improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in computer science and our team. Our mission and our culture attract passionate people. But "diversity, equity, and inclusion" do not mean the same thing to everyone. We have had instances where we have hired people obsessed with specific interpretations and biases around these noble-sounding ideals. They have used them as both shield and hammer to excuse their personal biases and to try and intimidate co-workers and leadership into submitting to their demands. They put a lot of effort into questioning every decision, critiquing every initiative, and ultimately attempting to shift the mission and work of Code.org to serve their specific concerns- or go out of business. These people have had no hesitation in dividing the world, and our team, into what they deem as saints and sinners. And they are more than happy to take it upon themselves to gang up if necessary and punish non-believers. Examples must be made. It is intimidating and effective. It is also remarkably distracting. Their unrealistic expectations and endless pessimism disrupt the flow of our work. Their obsession with identity politics divides our team into smaller and smaller groups. Their intense moral certainty and lack of accountability or self-awareness make people unwilling and even afraid to speak out against them. Code.org has bent over backward to please this small fraction of our current and former team, but at some point, enough is enough. Code.org has finally reached that point. It is not a pleasurable experience to work with people who have an expectation that this org should change just for them and a desire to see it burn if it doesn't.

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