Imagine Learning reviews

3.0

47% would recommend to a friend

(612 total reviews)
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Jonathan Grayer

42% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Imagine Learning has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 612 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average 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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612 reviews
1.0
Nov 5, 2018

The Ship Is Sinking

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company was founded ten years ago by an amazing core group of leaders. They established the mission to help children, which still exists today; however, it's not the driving force of the company anymore.

Cons

The new mission at Imagine Learning is make Jonathan Grayer money.

1.0
May 19, 2016

All great empires collapse...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Yes, there is a pantry.

Cons

Imagine Learning has changed from a company that treated employees like we were their greatest asset. Now, I feel like we are an unwanted expense (especially if you work in the wrong building). The recent reduction in force ("not calling it a layoff" -Joe Swenson) has been touted as a realignment of skills in order to streamline efforts to produce high quality activities faster (and for less money). At least that is the garbage they keep feeding us. They don't care much about the quality of the activities and even less about the content. Instead, the focus has become how we can produce something quickly while keeping the operating costs to a minimum. We used to pride ourselves on how our content was so rich, so diverse and very engaging. Now the focus is do it faster, make it less engaging and recycle what we can so we can reduce costs. Very, very sad to see the direction now There used to be a great deal of trust and admiration for our executive team. It has become increasingly difficult to sift out the truth from all the lies. I stopped listening to what they say now. Their actions speak louder than their words

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Imagine Learning Response
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Your disappointment, while completely natural, doesn't account for the fact that out of 11 employees affected by an organizational realignment, three chose to stay with the company in different assignments. We made every effort to help those impacted find new positions here or take additional months to search outside the company (at full pay and unlimited paid time off for interviews). No business is perfect, and every business has to make tough decisions. We don't find pleasure in the pain you are experiencing. But we do take issue with the idea that we would ever be satisfied with creating a mediocre product. We will never stop working to improve both our product and our processes. We hope in time you will view your experiences differently--and we do indeed wish you the best.
3.0
Oct 18, 2024
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Pros

The company is very good at making sure that your teams operate within themselves with very little micromanaging, allowing you to create and develop what needs to be done in order to get along and get things done.

Cons

Unfortunately, the higher levels will make decisions that negatively effect the teams in ways that snowball out of control. With poor compensation for workload and poor communication of company internal functions, it can be hard to trust the upper levels - but you will trust the members you do get to see and hear from on the day-to-day with your life.

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