Terrible executive leadership with near-quarterly layoffs! - Anonymous Employee Pluralsight Employee Review

2.0
17 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Best thing hands-down is going to be the people you get to work with. There are so many smart, talented, delightful people there. - The compensation is pretty good. - The unlimited PTO is great and you USED to be encouraged to take it. I'm not sure if that's still the case though.

Cons

- Business approach is to overhire too many people and then hold layoffs again and again (rinse & repeat) - The people hired are not necessarily the people who are needed. I'm not sure who there is making decisions on what teams/jobs to prioritize. Lots of teams don't have enough people to do the jobs that they have and the teams keep getting smaller, rather than bigger. - Executive leadership is so far removed from the customers that they have no idea what's needed or what their customers are wanting. I watched them completely do away with the support team for one of their products with absolutely no recourse on how to support those customers who were needing help or were reporting broken or outdated content. - Layoffs at LEAST twice a year. Sometimes quarterly though. I was there 3.5 years and saw 7 rounds of layoffs (from 10-15 people at a time to 400+ people at a time) before I was finally laid off as well in round #8.

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5.0
25 Jun 2026
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Pros

Great group of people to work with, and they will help you grow and advance within the company.

Cons

None that I have to mention.

4.0
15 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, and good work environment. Some really nice people.

Cons

Sometimes company goals are confusing.

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