It was great until it wasn't - Anonymous employee Thinkful Employee Review

1.0
14 May 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Work you can genuinely feel good about: helping students switch careers and change their lives. - Remote work, flexible schedule, great coworkers.

Cons

- Below average pay, lack of raises - Educator pay (ya know the people who ACTUALLY do the work at Thinkful are severely underpaid. $25/hr is a JOKE) - Little to no career growth - No 401k match - Overstretched managers and project managers - Company is changing for the worse since getting acquired by Chegg.

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5.0
4 Apr 2023
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
10 Mar 2024
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Pros

Lots of "control" in mentorship, schedule flexibility, get paid to enhance your craft, and typical benefits of being an independent contractor

Cons

Unsteady flow of work (would be wise to not rely on this for primary income), pay is sub par for industry, pay schedule is roughly a month after service(rediculous lead time on billing), the company clearly cuts corners every year to save money and this directly impacts the contractors, unclear communication / expectations of the junior engineers that you train (we get lots of questions that must be deffered to Thinkful and many rules are not clear. You will also find students who seek help beyond the mentorsession as a last resort and must decide to leave them hanging or go above and beyond without additional pay)

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