Pluralsight

2.0

16 Dec 2022

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Pros

The people you will work with are great. Salaries are good and they encourage you to use the unlimited PTO. You get a LOT of input on hiring for your assigned team (although you get none when it comes to firing). My direct engineering leadership is great.

Cons

Since the acquisition by Vista Equity, Pluralsight has shown an increasing lack of concern or respect for their employees. Several unpopular initiatives have been treated as loyalty tests. They laid off 400 people two weeks before Christmas 2022. On the engineering side they identified teams they felt could move to the India Technology Center (ITC) and got rid of **all** the U.S. engineers assigned to those teams regardless of performance. At the same time they announced the layoffs, they announced they are hiring extensively for the ITC in 2023. I doubt you will see any more US job postings for engineers. If you do, be aware it may be relatively temporary. Pluralsight leverages a matrix management approach for the engineering teams. They aren't effective at it. For example, they didn't get input from direct or even skip-level managers of engineers before deciding which engineers would be eliminated. They are moving in the direction of weaponizing OKRs, and having them assigned to you from multiple business units.

Pluralsight Response

Thank you for the review. I understand your frustrations with the recent restructuring and acknowledge this is a very difficult time. Global economic uncertainty has impacted our business (like many others) and our overall performance was not where it needed to be to ensure our future success. Restructuring and reducing headcount was an unfortunate but necessary step to ensure we’re best positioned for 2023 and beyond. As for reduction decisions, these were made based on our business strategy and using a variety of standard metrics that many companies use to evaluate org structure/health. Our long-term strategy to grow and build our presence in India has been under development for a number of years, and only a small portion of roles (35) were relocated to India as a part of our recent staff reductions. I appreciate your continued commitment to Pluralsight. If you would like to chat about your concerns further, please reach out to me. If you would like to discuss your career growth, I encourage you to speak with your leader or your business partner. - Will

Sadly, not a place for a software career anymore - Sr. Software Engineer Pluralsight Employee Review

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