GoNoodle Reviews

First and foremost, senior leadership lacks direction, competency, and -- probably most unfortunately -- trustworthiness and integrity. This has led to the emergence in recent years of a toxic work environment plagued by a culture of blame, infighting, backstabbing, and extreme dysfunction. You can observe this externally in the lack of product evolution, stalling of new features and content, flagging sales, and an increasingly incohesive marketing message. GoNoodle also has a burnout problem. The incredible "doers" I mentioned in the previous section are overwhelmingly burnt out, not because of overwork, but because of the inability to make progress due to highly frustrating obstructionism and incompetency among senior leadership. Career development for employees -- including fair titling and compensation -- has always been one of GoNoodle's lowest priorities. Annual performance reviews are skipped most years, promotions require a fight, and now the HR function has been eliminated completely. While there's a heavy internal push by employees to make diversity & inclusion a priority, GoNoodle's workforce and recent hires remain abjectly homogeneous. Lastly, there is no sustainable revenue plan. This means that decisions will continue to be reactionary and panic-driven for the foreseeable future, which will continue to keep the company from reaching its full (and truly incredible) potential. If you do plan to interview there, I strongly encourage you to ask as many questions as possible and push hard on this area before deciding whether you want to join this team.

The current CEO doesn't have the experience or knowledge necessary to make the company a success, and the board lacks insight into what goes on day-to-day to steer the company back towards profitability and achievement. You can see reflections of this in the current members of leadership- all look good "on paper," but spend some time in a room with them and you quickly realize if the company ever becomes successful again, it will be in spite of them, not because of them. Because of this, the company has no overall mission, lacks values, and sets employees up for failure on almost every new plan or task. Goals and plans change daily. Where there once was a great mission to provide a GREAT product to kids and teachers, there now exists only a "get rich quick" mentality and teachers have long been forgotten. The company is plagued by debt and financial woes because of these bad decisions, so long term employment is risky.