Flocabulary Reviews

- Massive turnover. Nearly 40% of the company has left in the past year. There are 1-2 people announcing resignations every week while most of the folks who remain there are actively looking for new jobs. - Major lack of vision and leadership. The founders have cultivated a culture where even minor decisions must pass through their inbox, creating a very reactive and finger-pointing culture - Poor morale among staff. Despite having very passionate users, the staff at Flocabulary are in a destitute state both before the acquisition by Nearpod AND after. The weekly departures of staff contribute to this, but the constant change and lack of recognition really drive it - Almost every team at the company is in a process of slow decline. There is no senior leadership amongst the tech team, resulting in a product that's barely evolved in years. There is not enough man power to complete even the most basic features without dealing with mountains of tech debt. Beware of an engineering position here, you'll be working on outdated tech and leveraging archaic components. The sales organization has had a leadership vacuum for close to 2 years now and the founders seem to be preventing them from truly advancing while holding them to 90's style cold calling and lead generation. Sales staff aren't encourage, trained, or given access to data analysis tools - they're replicating brute force techniques that have contributed to very miniscule growth over the past 2 years. The Marketing org has been gutted by departures of core staff who have grown fed up with Flocab founders reducing their resources and preventing any real innovation. The CS team is in constant competition with the Sales org for commissions. The Creative team is really the only team that's given free reign. - Flocabulary was acquired by Nearpod in April 2019, and though layoffs were promised not to occur, staff are hearing whispers of role changes and staffing decreases. I would be weary to join the org if I were in any team besides Tech or Creative. - Lack of transparency; the management team makes decisions in a bubble and the founders are often announcing decisions to the staff at the last minute. Flocabulary created 4 company values but rarely, if ever, are they upheld by Senior Leadership - Short-sighted thinking leading to lack of resources: personnel decisions take many months to make, leaving current employees with unreasonable workloads and lacking the tools to get work done. For example, there is no business intelligence software used - there are poorly defined metrics in a couple Grow dashboards, but ever since the Data team resigned, they've been left to rot. - Glacial career growth; don't come here if you're expecting to grow. You will definitely learn to work in a fast paced setting but you will be hard pressed to find a path to promotion - Cliquey culture: there are clearly defined cliques at the company and you will absolutely know who's part of what - Poor compensation: don't expect to be paid well here. They're banking on you taking the job because of your passion - I wouldn't recommend working at flocabulary to anyone but a fresh grad; it's a shame because Flocab had so much potential when I first joined but has imploded at this point