Imagine Learning reviews

3.1

49% would recommend to a friend

(613 total reviews)
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Jonathan Grayer

44% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Imagine Learning has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 613 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Imagine 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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613 reviews
2.0
Nov 22, 2021

Beware

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Pros

This company began with a true mission for opening doors of access and equity for all learners through literacy and math instruction. The core products are really well made. The former leadership was stellar. The employee culture is historically one of hard work, professionalism, and fun.

Cons

Imagine Learning is in a world of turmoil right now. The founders are all gone, investors have taken over, and they have sadly lost their core company values. They no longer treat their employees with respect. Increasing the profit margin is the only goal. For example, they just laid off dozens of people with no forewarning and no reason--and they did it on a group Zoom call where the announcement was publicly made during a ten minute Zoom meeting. No one-on-one conversations took place or attempts at reassigning employees to open positions. I have never seen a poorer display of professionalism in my entire career. They laid off professionals that had been with the company for 10+ years, who were widely respected, market experts, and continuously revenue generating. They are shifting job descriptions for dozens more employees who were hired to do functions that no longer exist. All of this happened right before the holidays. I have seen agreements with customers shifted in the middle of the fulfillment period because the customer success and professional development model changed. There was no regard or apology to customers, and in many cases, no notification whatsoever. Imagine Learning products have been plagued with technical breakdowns, features that are halfway developed, and reporting that does not align with standards in a meaningful or simple way for teachers. Their legacy benchmark assessment is skewed for upper grades and does not give accurate results from BOY to EOY. This issue has been known for at least four years and has been completely ignored and kept hush-hush from customers. Customer success managers exhaust themselves trying to show results from subpar products that don't yield readily available data. Now, the company is trying to hobble a plethora of products together, but there is no seamless access or integration between platforms. Weld North Education now encompasses about a dozen companies, and they have hijacked the Imagine Learning name (which used to have such a good reputation) and put the cutthroat leadership of Edgenuity in charge. Soon, they will learn that if your employees aren't happy, your customers won't be either. Buyer beware: make sure you know which products you are purchasing (what they used to be called and what the history of that company/product is), what the support model is, and what the training looks like.

5.0
Nov 18, 2021

Great company!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of resources to help you be successful. I haven’t met one person who didn’t enjoy working here. All departments come together well to help customers - great team.

Cons

Growing quickly and not always kept in the loop of all the changes.

1.0
Nov 17, 2021
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Pros

I once thought very highly of this company. They were an exceedingly great company with enormous potential. They historically have done amazing and wonderful things that have changed countless lives and made the world a better place. They have eternally made a powerful positive impact on mankind by greatly blessing the lives of the schools, students, and students' families whom they serve. They also paid me to learn a lot of new and useful technologies that helped my career. They helped with my skill growth. They were also enjoyable to work with for many different things. They have good food and a fun working environment. There are many bright and innovative people who work here. They really gave me a lot of hope for a time. They gave me a lot of freedom until I was terminated.

Cons

Oh Imagine Learning, how long will you go on in your way to destruction? How long will you deceive yourselves and contradict yourselves and lead your employees astray? How long will you continue to make choices that will inevitably bring failure and destruction as a company upon you? How long will you reject the counsel of your owner? How long will you misjudge yourselves by casting out the righteous from among you until you are fully ripe? How long will you strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, so to speak? How long will you deceive yourselves and lie to yourselves and your employees? How deep must you be in the path of your self-deception? Was the truth not made clear to you? Was it not made plain enough for you? Was it not made so explicitly clear that it was impossible to deny? And do you not already take credit of it for yourselves? How dare you. You think the blessings will continue to pour out upon you... You know not the hand that you have severed. You know not the head that you have betrayed. They were yours, and now are they gone. What have you done? Will you trick yourselves and not even realize what damage you are bringing upon your organization and to those whom you claim to serve? My heart is pained for you because of the inevitable failure that you are bringing upon your organization because of your choices unless you greatly change your ways. It is an exceedingly great tragedy. So much potential, and all for nothing! All to be folded in one day as another great business opportunity that missed the mark in a tragic way and lost the ability to reach its divine potential. You could have done so much more good! This destruction has been made sure unless a great correction is made as Imagine Learning has never seen before. Like nobody has seen before. It would need to be an epic transformation that nobody had ever expected. It would create great shock waves and divide the company. But it would prevent the destruction that would otherwise be inevitable. My heart is pained because of you and because of the opportunity that you are missing for the children whom you claim to serve. You had so much potential! But the children... You do not love them! You do not think of them! Perhaps you think you do, but you actually do not! You just don't get it. Not sufficiently. You just don't get it enough. You would not! You do not think of what you are doing to them with your ways of choices. You do not think of what you are doing to the children. You do not think of what you are doing to their classrooms. You just wouldn't get it! You have missed the mark. You have followed the wrong voice. And for you to reach this point, will you not heed this warning? Will you succumb to the hardness of your hearts? The hearts that are being hardened at this very moment? The hearts that I once thought were soft? The hearts with so much potential? Will you need to learn the hard way? You will have brought it upon yourselves! I shudder to think of it. I did everything in my power to prevent it, but you would not. Oh, Imagine Learning, how great potential you had! How great opportunity you had! And is it gone? Really? That quickly? That suddenly? Have you really brought it to vanish away? The thought is so terribly and inconsolably sad! You are like a wrecking ball for yourselves! You could have succeeded! You could have been so much greater! You could have done it! But you have made your destruction inevitable except you should greatly reverse your path. Your time is almost gone before your destruction (as a company) is made sure. (This is not a threat. I am simply stating the academic facts of the consequences of the choices you have made organizationally. So don't you dare think that I would stoop so low as to threaten you. I am not the source of your destruction. Quite the contrary, I did everything in my power to prevent it. You chose to reject it.) I am very sorry for you. I am exceedingly sorry for you indeed. I couldn't even believe that you would do this to yourselves! I just could not believe it! But my heart burns greatly within me that it is so, and I know now that you did what I never thought you would do. Oh, Imagine Learning, how I loved you. How great you were, and how far you have fallen from grace! The time to correct your path is now. The time to reverse this destruction is yours, and only you can make it. You must be swift. You must be exceedingly swift for your destruction is expedient and is chasing you by the tail and is catching you even in this very hour. Great damage has already been done. Immense damage. All of it you have brought upon yourself. Much of it will be impossible to repair. But you must see the consequences of your choices. You must face them because they will face you. Search yourselves and ask, and you will find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. Behold, it will be to your company's demise if you do not turn and repent and correct your path. I have said enough. You will know deep within your hearts what you must do if you will search for it. And let it be so.

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