IXL Learning reviews

- Collaboration and innovation are completely stifled by incompetent and out-of-touch leadership - CEO is woefully inept and desperately tries to appear "non-corporate" while reinforcing all of the standard corporate tropes -- unnecessary meetings, meddling & vindictive management, top-down decision making, zero accountability, etc. - No DEI programs or initiatives, and any mention of diversity is met with hostility ("we value diversity of thought" dog-whistle) - All decisions are 100% profit-driven, even at the expense of safety - Leadership constantly uses employees as scapegoats for their problems, refusing to take accountability - Out-of-date (by 10+ years) tech stack and tooling with no real push to modernize

"Micromanagement" is an understatement for the "leadership" team. They lack the capacity to trust their managers; every single hiring decision is subjected to random, uninformed whims of [redacted]; in fact, their entire hiring process seems to be designed to exclude experienced engineers with multiple options, which is very frustrating when you are trying to grow your team with anyone but new grads (and even they end up getting snatched up elsewhere, if they have a modicum of skill!) Extremely opaque expectations from management, product direction is chosen, again, at the apparent whims of the executive team, with little regard to product market fit, or data-driven strategy. Employees randomly moved onto new projects with no warning and insufficient ramp-up and knowledge transfer. A culture of fear dominates. Absolutely no regard is given to employee welfare by the executive team; for example, just a week before an entire team was laid off, that team was granted permission to extend an offer to a potential new hire (who ended up declining, thank goodness). Had he accepted, he would have quit his current job, gotten hired, and immediately laid off without severance. What kind of psychopath would do that to someone???