Turnitin reviews

4.2

83% would recommend to a friend

(300 total reviews)
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Chris Caren

98% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Turnitin has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 300 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Turnitin 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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300 reviews
1.0
Mar 13, 2022

Finance

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Company products are well established in the Academic and elsewhere. Pay are great but everything else is down the hill.

Cons

Very unstable. High.... High turnover for this size of the company. The result is people leave even with good pay and benefits. The company culture is pretty disappointing. People pass on to say go talk to XYZ if you need more information I am just doing what I was told to do. So if you want to get on the band wagon to laid back to pass the token to the next guy then it is a great place. Do not expect for any improvement or even attempt or hope for any improvement because it is not a right place to be productive

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Turnitin Response
4y
Thank you for taking time out to share your experience. At Turnitin, we see all feedback as a gift. Glassdoor reviews showcase our strengths, and highlight areas for improvement. So please know that we take your feedback seriously, and will be actioning these insights. One of the things we acknowledge internally is that we are not a perfect company. We’ve grown organically and inorganically swiftly in the last couple of years, and we’re working hard to integrate and improve a number of processes. What couldn’t be more perfect, however, is that we are coming together as One Team at Turnitin - not legacy this or that - to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. Our people are humble, committed and supportive - this is spoken of in exit interviews and engagement surveys with consistency. We are listening carefully to your feedback. The key takeaway is that we need to focus more on culture and cohesion in this remote-first world that we're all operating in. Please know that we're spending significant time and energy focused on company culture, with our people leaders and executive leaders. What does this look like? We're enhancing our culture of collaboration, upskilling our people leaders and placing purpose at the center of everything we do. We're excited to take this journey with you, and hope that we can count on you to improve this culture that we're all a part of.
2.0
Sep 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Remote work flexibility - Passionate colleagues who care about education - Decent raise at annual performance review

Cons

- Leadership shift toward a rigid, corporate culture (former Amazon management) - Clique dynamics that hinder collaboration and fairness - Management tends to push problems back on individual contributors and expect them to fix it - Individual contributors expected to take on management-level tasks and used for promotion eligibility on top of their normal work - Understaffed teams and workloads beyond role descriptions - Disorganized product management with unrealistic turnaround expectations - Poor work-life balance. Software launch was pushed at a time in the Summer when management knows most employees take PTO. - Conflict-heavy environment; advancement often depends on alliances - Layoffs every 6 months framed as “restructuring,” creating instability and competition - UX leadership provides little advocacy for the team - Product is number one, then engineering, then UX (ex. UX makes tickets for products now because product and engineering said that it's too much for them)

2.0
May 25, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Remote first policy is the best thing.

Cons

Everything else. I worked for a good company before TurnItIn bought it. Employees aren't considered people anymore, there are unreal expectations, changes in job descriptions with no warning. Promotions and job advancement went out the door with TurnItIn. I would not recommend TurnItIn to anyone I cared about in any way.

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Turnitin Response
3y
Thank you for taking time out to share your experience. At Turnitin, we see all feedback as a gift. Glassdoor reviews showcase our strengths, and highlight areas for improvement. So please know that we take your feedback seriously, and will be acting on these insights. As a current employee, we would always encourage employees to share their feedback or concerns directly with our People team or via our engagement surveys. Employee engagement is a top focus for Turnitin and we would love the opportunity to help address the concerns you have and to provide actionable solutions. At Turnitin, we are One-Team and feedback will allow us to always be improving. Please know that acquisitions and integrations sometimes take time to be fully realized. Turnitin is committed to bringing all cultures together and building a strong and fun One-Team culture. In regards to growth and promotion within Turnitin, job families and career development plans and paths are in currently in development and have already launched in some departments! We look forward to you seeing more of this in the next few months and the clarity and direction these will provide.
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