CodeAI reviews

- Organization is top-down. Decisions are made with little to no transparency. CEO has too much power with no checks. Recently, CEO was openly hostile to some employees in an all-hands meeting with no reprecussions. - Communication with leadership is poor and getting worse. Bottom layers of organzation are powerless to effect change. - Recently, private Slack channels that were safe spaces for identity-based groups -- including LGBTQIA and people of color -- were forcibly made public without consulting the people affected. Additional restrictions have been introduced on some e-mail communications to promote "unity". - The primary goal of the organization is to reach as many students as possible with equity a distant second. Currently, the strategy is clearly "don't rock the boat". The organization avoids any actions that could potentially anger Republican governors or convervative donors. Notice that there were no statements from the organization about Roe v. Wade or even Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill which has a direct impact on student education. - Lots of attrition recently, including at least 5 employees that have explicitly left for some of the reasons above. All this said, this could still be a good place to work and make an impact. Just ask lots of questions before you join and make sure this is a good fit for you.

CEO and executive team are very defensive, reactive, and do not believe in a culture of feedback. Explicitly denied the formation of employee resource groups (something I've never experienced at a company before). From my experience, only brought up core values as a way to defend decisions made after-the-fact. It felt like I should be afraid if I disagreed with executive leadership and that there could be retaliation if I were to speak up to leadership. CEO often interrupts product timelines or in-flight work with one-off projects that he personally has decided to roll out, with very little to no planning and short-timelines. I don't usually write these reviews, but have decided to do so as a warning. I absolutely would not recommend working here. If you are interviewing, try and ask as direct and specific questions as possible about leadership, company culture, and product decisions.