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3.7

56% would recommend to a friend

(12 total reviews)

Hadi Partovi

54% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

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5.0
Feb 12, 2025
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Pros

Code.org is an incredible place to work, especially if you’re passionate about education, equity, and making a real impact. The organization’s mission to expand access to computer science is deeply ingrained in everything we do, and it’s inspiring to be part of a team that’s truly making a difference in students’ lives. Leadership is supportive and transparent, and there’s a strong culture of collaboration and inclusivity. Work-life balance is respected and highly encouraged. One will be amazed to see the impact of their work at such deep levels. If you’re looking for a workplace where you can grow, be inspired, and contribute to something bigger than yourself, Code.org is the place to be!

Cons

Code.org is full of passionate people who care deeply about the organization and its mission. This strong emotional investment creates a culture which might feel intense for those who prefer a more detached or transactional work environment.

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CodeAI Response
1y
Thank you for your thoughtful review! We’re so glad to hear that you find Code.org to be a meaningful, collaborative, and inspiring place to work. Our mission is at the heart of everything we do, and it’s our dedicated team that makes it all possible. We recognize that our shared passion for the mission can create a deeply engaged and fast-paced environment, and we strive to balance that with a culture of support and transparency. We appreciate your insights and your contributions to our work—thank you for being part of the Code.org team.
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!
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