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
2.0
Jun 29, 2015
Recommend
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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.

1.0
Jul 15, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nothing - Not one single thing

Cons

First of all this company gives ZERO equity to its employees - that shows you how much they value their employees. Why? Because Paul and his leadership team are the most incompetent, greedy leadership team in the Valley. The worst I have ever seen. Let's be clear, for them its not about Education it's only about MONEY. I hope school districts wake up and sever contracts with this gutless company. And all of those fake reviews are just HR's desperate attempt to salvage some leverage in hiring new people. Paul's approval rating would be 0% without these efforts. And what does HR do outside of posting fake reviews? They fired scores of people during the COVID pandemic while making RECORD profits. They are gutless, spineless and greedy beyond measure. Don't walk, run in the other direction. No self- respecting person would ever work for this company.

2.0
Jan 28, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The product is well positioned.

Cons

Executive leadership has little vision, very reactive, and doesn’t enable senior and mid-level leaders to drive decision-making despite their high-level of expertise in respective departments. This has a negative ripple effect that is felt down the ladder as you’re trying to do your job efficiently and effectively. Decisions seem to be all over the place, as an example, an entire team of field marketing managers was laid off seemingly on a whim, including one team member who was just hired a few months prior! There is very little data to drive decisions, or at least it’s not shared beyond executive leaders. There are also rumors of poor behavior and practices that are are mentioned in other reviews, these seem to have merit to them. This is one of the most disorganized and frustrating places I have ever worked. I wouldn’t recommend working here with the current level of uncertainty.

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