IXL Learning reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(447 total reviews)
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Paul Mishkin

53% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

IXL Learning has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 447 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The IXL Learning employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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447 reviews
5.0
Jul 13, 2015

Exciting time to work in Edtech

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Pros

IXL and the Edtech space is exploding, it's a great time to be here. Everyone at IXL is passionate about education and promoting education through technology. It's refreshing to be at a company where you can really stand behind the product. People are on the same page about wanting to make a difference in the education space and work together to reach common goals. In my experience, employees are generally happy and excited about the work we're doing. IXL has excellent benefits; 100% paid medical, matching 401k, 3 weeks vacation, company socials, in office massages, happy hours, volunteer days, game room, free drinks, etc.

Cons

Sometimes the younger employees make immature business decisions; but I think that will get better with ongoing mentorship / management. I also wish the office was located in SF or closer to the city.

5.0
Jul 3, 2015

Caring place

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Pros

The company is sincere about improving education and cares about its customers. Plenty of volunteer events and other activities help people get to know each other. Intelligent and interesting coworkers. Idyllic office setting.

Cons

The company is more conservative with perks than some other tech businesses. They are good but not over the top. On the flip side they are more generous with space and provide cubes and offices rather than open seating.

2.0
Jun 29, 2015
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Pros

-Very smart, hard-working people are hired to work here. Somehow, the company recruits great talent and down-to-earth individuals, for the most part. -401(k) matching, full benefits, a drink fridge. -The product itself is outstanding. -The product and development team is full of mostly upstanding, hard-working and brilliant folks.

Cons

This is the worst Silicon Valley SaaS company imaginable at which to grow a sustainable, challenging and rewarding career in sales/account management. Awful culture, paltry pay, mind-numbing work and a strange climate of intimidation, fear-mongering and 'good ol' boys' Wolf of Wall Street B.S. straight from the 1980s soils the entire sales department. The majority of employees worth their salt leave within 2 years for greener pastures. The funny thing is that this spectrum of 'better' options available ranges from bootstrapped start-ups to Google/Facebook/Salesforce behemoths. People have actually chosen to be unemployed rather than deal with this soul-suck of an office. This company is literally a stepping stone to other careers, and is sinking in its own morass of mediocrity. The sales department (the entire company, essentially) is run as a dictatorship. Each VP (and each incompetent manager under them) has unilateral authority that goes mostly unchecked. The volume of your voice is more important than the actual work that you do, in that it reaffirms managements' archaic approach to sales. This climate breeds resentment, apathy, rampant job-searching (during work hours!) and fear among employees. Work is largely mindless, repetitive and serves the sole purpose of being able to humble-brag about 'big deals' during meetings with management. It is a tragic comedy.

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