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Renaissance Learning

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Horrible company & culture - Customer Success Renaissance Learning Employee Review

1.0
11 Feb 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The people on the ground level are generally amazing and hard working. But the company take extreme advantage of them. Overworked and underpaid.

Cons

So much wrong with this place but I’ll leave just the one example. Renaissance requires their leadership to select a certain population of their teams for personal improvement plans. So even if the whole team is doing well, directors still HAVE to report a percentage of their team as “underperforming.” So if there are ten people on your team, two of you are required to be on personal improvement plans. Those numbers are not in anyone’s favor. Chances are if you take a job here you’ll probably get put on an improvement plan no matter how hard you work or how well you do. Does that sound like a healthy work culture? It should tell you everything you need to know about the culture.

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Renaissance Learning Response
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We appreciate your feedback. Here at Renaissance we do not require leaders to identify a certain percentage of their employees as underperforming or to be placed on a performance improvement plan. We encourage our leaders to coach their employees and provide ongoing feedback. If an employee is not meeting the expectations of their role, we do have a performance improvement process with detailed goals and feedback to help employees succeed.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
22 May 2026
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Pros

Some of the most amazing people you’ll ever work with. Generally supportive peers. Leaders are kind and not intentionally toxic. Strong brand recognition and a variety of solutions to enable solution selling.

Cons

The culture of the organization seems to have succumbed to the broader climate surrounding politics and education. Immense pressure is placed on sales team to deliver in saturated territories with beyond unachievable quotas for some and cake quotas for others. No cost of living increases, lots of layoffs and unclear path for growth with an egregious lack of transparency from leadership about the glaring issues. NONE of this seems intentional or malicious-it just seems like a lot of behaviors caused by extreme desperation.

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