At one point in time, Pluralsight had a very strong Product culture that encouraged growth, strong collaboration, and positioned those involved towards new opportunities. They invested in the various disciplines (Product Management, Product Design, Data, and Engineering) and worked to ensure that each of these roles had support from peers and (just as importantly) discipline leadership / support. But that time is over. And what that has also removed is a path for continued growth in the Design space.
Pluralsight has made decision after decision to remove all support from disciplines outside of Engineering, thus tanking the Product culture at Pluralsight.
There is no centralized or supportive Design leadership at Pluralsight anymore. There does not appear to be any interest in creating any either. Instead, all Designers report to a generalized manager who has little to no actual experience or expertise to the discipline. Growth for individual contributors has been neglected in favor of driving the highest profits.
Senior talent has all but left in a great exodus in search of a place who actually values their craft and supports the continued growth of those they employ.
Pluralsight has also struggled with nepotism where people have been put into positions without any of the previous experience or qualifications, but because they're close to an "insiders" group. We've even heard of some people moving into high level leadership without any actual interviews to be put into the role they're taking over because "their entire time at Pluralsight has been one long interview for this role". That just isn't right. That's not an equitable or fair hiring practice, particularly when the person who took over this role had never worked with an organization like this before. It's painfully obvious to see the inner workings of nepotism in this organization – and it's largely a men's group in the upper levels of senior leadership in the Product spaces.
Diversity and inclusion has continued to be an issue here as well, as you may have guessed with the above.
