Keypath Education reviews

3.0

48% would recommend to a friend

(437 total reviews)
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Steve Fireng

73% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Keypath Education has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 437 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Keypath Education 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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437 reviews
1.0
Aug 5, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

WFH is good, equipment provided

Cons

Discouraged from working in the office, even occasionally. Managers who don’t know how to lead. ‘Free enrolment’ distribution unfair and favours long tenured employees with large pipelines, thus creating a catch 22 of new employees don’t get free enrolments because their numbers are lower, not getting free enrolments to lower numbers. Would probably be great to have joined years ago as they were growing. On-ramp is not good. Commission pays for first enrolment cycle then immediately moving to a gateway model before you have even learned the job properly, suddenly locking you out of your commission early on. Lots of promises of uncapped commission, but again, very difficult to get out of the starting blocks when your competing with colleagues with massive pipelines

2.0
May 6, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

it makes you mentally stronger

Cons

Pay scale does not match the industry standard nor does it justify the amount of work. There is no scope for growth in this team. In the monthly celebration huddles they announce promotions in every other function except student success. Its a nice way of saying that student success has no good hardworking individuals. Motivation across the team is pretty low and there are few incentives to keep you going.

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Keypath Education Response
5y
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. And very sorry your experience has not been wonderful. I have made the senior team aware and will look to see what, if any, needs to be address. We will agree on one thing, employees need and want recognition. Again appreciate the concern and your comments show how much your care about Keypath. Steve
2.0
Apr 6, 2021

A Company That Should've Stayed a Mom 'n' Pop Shop

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The employee benefits and PTO policy are second to none at Keypath and unusually generous in this day and age. Those are a big part of the appeal. They also hire world-class talent -- many former colleagues remain good personal friends. It's just a shame that the company chews through them at such a high rate. When I started, Keypath was still a small- mid-sized company, but the business grew at a fantastic rate. Any organization that "corporatizes" is going to alienate some longer-term or older employees -- goes with the territory. I don't fault Keypath for that. Growth is good! But they have some huge problems in middle management that are stunting that growth and profitability process by focusing on the wrong things (see below).

Cons

Breathtaking incompetence in middle management. A fundamental misunderstanding of data analysis -- this is a company run by VCs in a board room who don't understand how the "sausage" is made, fine, but middle management should understand thoroughly what their teams are doing. And they don't. A company this size shouldn't be generating multiple Excel spreadsheets with the same data sliced 100 different ways to look "busy" -- there were much better solutions years ago. I spent the majority of my time grinding through the same numbers over and over again in useless reports vs. doing the work I was hired to do (which made the real numbers suffer as a result). Also a "Church of Scientology" culture. From what I'm hearing, employees are expected to work 12-13 hour days + weekends and somehow you're a failure as a human being if you can't hack that. No corporate job is worth that, especially for family people with kids at home during a pandemic. I had a former colleague ask me, without irony, "did your life end when you left Keypath?" Nope. No, it didn't.

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Keypath Education Response
5y
Thank you for your comments and appreciate the honesty. I am very sorry your recent experience was not positive. I do care how everyone is treated and do expect/want employees to have work/life balance. We are a better company when people feel they can do both. Even though I hate even one person (or as you said others) to feel the push, push, push..... Growth is never an excuse. As you know I do talk to folks almost everyday across the company and receive positive comments, but I am not naïve to think we can't continue to improve. Thanks for the reminder..... I am always happy to speak, please email me at steve.fireng@keypathedu.com so I can get more details. I wish you all the best Steve
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