Great opportunity if you have no skills and want to coast - Anonymous employee Codecademy Employee Review

2.0
16 May 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Great work life balance and good pay - A few shining star employees - Large consumer base - CEO has good intentions - Good opportunity to grow if you have no prior experience

Cons

- CEO is not operationally involved in the business and has had a track record of hiring bad leaders that have either (a) quit/gotten fired or (b) are actively running the business into the ground (Product) - Company has no coherent strategy on how to grow and PMs/managers are inept - Terrible HR track record - not firing soon enough, promoting the wrong people, pushing out people who were good, not promoting people due to stupid made-up rules, etc. - Extremely limited growth opportunities for people who already know the basics of their function.

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Codecademy Response
4y
So much has changed that I probably shouldn’t even be responding to this, but ouch!

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