IXL Learning reviews

3.4

59% would recommend to a friend

(449 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 449 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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449 reviews
1.0
Sep 20, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Not too much 1.Okay base salary 2. In bay area, good to change jobs

Cons

1. No bonus, stock even sign on, relocation 2. No free lunch, no snack 3. People are kind of cold, colleague collaboration is bad 4. Cannot keep excellent employee, people leave frequently and senior(>2 years) are very rare 5. Managers have too much power 6. Like people from famous schools, but these people definitely not the top student at their school 7. Code style is very bad and too many duplicate and unnecessary codes, employee often copy and paste 8. Still use SVN instead of git, no modern advanced technologies 9. Everyday work are mostly fixing bugs, pretty simple tasks, do not have projects on every teams 10. Have been established over 18 years as Google, still a small company, not promising at all

2.0
Jul 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Salary and benefits were good Lots of very smart people working there New office Free drinks

Cons

Everything else: No advancement unless you work all day every day and you think like management No room for new innovation In the business of making money and not of helping students actually learn and think More concerned with getting more users, producing pre-formatted content, than with thinking of new or better content Management makes decisions without involving teams at all No communication from CEO, has no social skills Company culture is non existent because there is no example or encouragement from upper management People working for some months become 'Managers' simply because they were hired first. They turn out to have zero managing experience or skills. No training for this it seems.

1.0
Sep 19, 2024

Managers aren't so great

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Lots of good friendly people - Nice San Mateo location.

Cons

- Incompetent managers that does not know how to manage large projects, it's a cluster-F when several teams try to collaborate to complete a project - Managers has different standards, and doesn't practice what they preach - Managers will tell you they will help you, but instead throw you under the bus - Tons of useless daily meetings that takes up most of the day which does not allow you to get your work done - Too many useless processes that you have to do get something completed - Product is super convoluted with useless tools and functionality that no one knows the correct way of doing things which I feel bad for schools who purchase our product -- this product probably makes kids stupid instead of smart - Super low pay

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