31 Dec 2020
Learning Objects Reviews
2.9
66% would recommend to a friend
Andrew Kvaal
Not enough data to show CEO approval
49% positive business outlook
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1.0
17 Jan 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
- Convenient location, directly above the DuPont Circle Metro station. - Employees have the ability to make decisions concerning the physical layout of their workplace. - The company hopes to solve important, challenging problems in education. - Free refreshments, coffee, and snacks. Ping pong, foosball, and a vintage Dig Dug arcade machine, if you're into that sort of thing. - CTO is incredibly intelligent, and is experienced not only as a Scala developer, but has successfully implemented continuous delivery as an engineering process. - The staff has many talented engineers capable of understanding difficult and abstract topics in computer science, e.g. category theory and functional programming.
Cons
- Poor executive leadership, a management structure which does not position the company for success. - The company does not serve its customers well. There is no product road map, and the allocation of time spent engineering tech debt vs. meeting customer needs is incredibly imbalanced, to the detriment of customers. - Recent changes in strategic direction have resulted in the loss of key personnel and talent in upper management, engineering, and HR. - Annual adjustments are small, and there exists no formal process for internal promotions.
3.0
28 Dec 2018
Great area, mostly great people, don't get rewarded enough for what we do
Anonymous employee
Current employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook
Pros
- Excellent location, just above Dupont Circle metro station - Spacious, fun office - a lot of hardworking, intelligent coworkers - interesting software problems to tackle - more recent focus on and success with UX/discovery-driven product development - recent better release management, higher quality control across development lifecycle - all employees have a strong say in what to do, within reason - free snacks, drinks, monthly team lunch, monthly company happy hour, annual holiday party - 401K match 3% - commuter subsidy - CTO is incredible - flexible telework, work/life balance - culture _usually_ avoids becoming too brogrammer-y - relatively good employee retention
Cons
- pay raises are nonexistent, thanks to Cengage acquisition, unless you get a promotion - some not-so-diligent coworkers, making you feel like a fool for working so hard for the same pay with no hope of a raise - salary good but becoming less and less competitive - no on-site HR person? - could be more diverse in engineering and executive areas (largely white, Asian, male, as in most of tech and executive areas) - office is falling apart with ceiling leakages/debris, fumes from restaurants below stinking up the air - Cengage uses ridiculous rules to get around DC laws so that they don't pay out your unused vacation if you leave the company and make your rollover sick leave effectively useless, limiting you to the sick leave you accrue in one year. so use it or lose it. - executive direction changes somewhat often, leaving individual contributors confused
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