Pluralsight reviews

2.9

35% would recommend to a friend

(1,257 total reviews)
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Erin Gajdalo

34% approve of CEO

19% positive business outlook

Pluralsight has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,257 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Pluralsight employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Oct 21, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Pluralsight is an incredible company that truly believes in lifting the human condition through technology education. I have faith that Aaron is an amazing CEO who just isn't aware of how mismanaged our People team is. Aaron, please know that there are people here who want to do the right thing and who want to do right by our employees.

Cons

Want to know what it's like working in HR at Pluralsight? Let me give you a glimpse into our world. Imagine having an executive who refuses to run their own department. Imagine trying your hardest to get initiatives off the ground, only to have them avoid meetings and any form of communication or follow-through. After a while you inevitably realize what you're working with: a leader that could care less about improving services to our employees, who makes decisions on limited information, and expects a team of expensive outside consultants to understand our people better than she does. You tell yourself that surly the employees will notice, surely the other executives will care about the many missteps and mistakes impacting their people. You pray that she is making the right calls, when in your gut you know that things are going to fail again. Then you learn that when employee surveys come in, your leader buries the negative feedback and the other execs never see the terrible comments about our team over and over. Even worse, when someone has the courage to champion change, they are pushed out. Instead of working to fix our issues, we learn to not talk about them. Aaron, can't you see that Anita is inadequate for this job? It makes me cringe when the leaders on our team whisper that she will eventually be gone, eventually the other execs will see what we are suffering through and will finally show her the door. We have no faith in our internal surveys, and are scared out of our minds to say anything. Most of us have families we are providing for and are not in a position to lose our jobs. There is no motivation to excel on this team or to fix what is broken: Anita will either push us out because she's intimidated by us, or we will be used us as a scapegoat for any number of her bad calls.

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Pluralsight Response
7y
I’m so sorry you see it this way. What would make a difference for our team is for you and I to chat, for me to understand what’s happened that led you to this, to hear your context and point of view, and for us to get this handled. As you’ve likely heard, there’s nothing I wouldn’t want to hear in the spirit of our mission and values. Let’s talk. - Anita
4.0
Oct 20, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Solid compensation, exciting company trajectory. Pluralsight has a great mission to democratize learning. The recent IPO and new campus mean that this is an exciting time to come aboard.

Cons

Since we went public the snack and food situation has worsened dramatically. Company has new policy where minority candidates will always be chosen with all else being within some undefined margin. THIS IS A TERRIBLE PRACTICE!!! Find some meritocratic way to choose between candidates, resorting to immutable characteristics such as skin color is just plain wrong.

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Pluralsight Response
7y
Thanks for leaving this review. An exciting time to join, indeed! As for always hiring minority candidates, that isn’t the intention. It sounds like we need to be clearer with our language, as we’re committed to meritocratic processes where the best candidate is chosen. AND we value diversity on our teams! - Anita
5.0
Oct 15, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Genuine care for employees. High level of empathetic engagement with customers. Senior leadership earnestly and consistently attempts to be informative and transparent. Close alignment between corp strategy and investment/budget decisions.

Cons

Like almost every other company in the world, we need to improve our change management practices.

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Pluralsight Response
7y
Thanks so much for leading this review. Love the points you’ve highlighted here, especially around transparency from senior leadership and close alignment between corporate strategy and financial investment. As we grow, it’s increasingly more important that we are transparent, give context, and give the “why” so that our teams can go and solve the hard problems. And when a million things feel like the priority, I also appreciate our maniacal focus on investing appropriately, in alignment with our strategy. Having to prioritize is a great forcing mechanism for focus. I agree on the need to be better at change management. A muscle we are committed to building! :) Thanks for all you do! - Anita
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