Treehouse (Oregon) Reviews

During my time here everything was in decline -- benefits, starting salaries, student focus, transparency and honestly from upper management, morale, organizational trust. A regime of companywide micromanaging resulted in extremely talented staff spending most of their time sitting in meetings, generating spreadsheets and reporting the same information over and over instead of doing what they did best -- creating an excellent educational product. Then the CEO laid off nearly 50% of the company, including most of the people responsible for making the product, abruptly and without warning, after months of lip service about our bright future and dedication to our mission. He pretends to care about diversity in the tech industry but is perfectly willing to sacrifice his company's goals, mission, focus, values, salaries, employees etc to chase dollars and boost his ego.

Treehouse management changes its mind every month or two and unfortunately none of the changes in the past few years have done anything to drive profitability. Worse than that, Treehouse continually cheats its employees out of fundamental parts of their compensation and benefits. A year ago, a 32-hr works week was a key component of the job and employees were paid well below market in trade for the shorter work week - fair enough. However, over the past year, management demanded that employees go into "sprint mode" for 3 months, where they were forced to work 40 hrs - for no additional compensation. In addition, other fringe benefits were cut, which meant less compensation. Just recently, Treehouse decided to change to a 40-hr work-week with ZERO change in compensation...employees could either work an extra day/week for free or "voluntarily" be laid off. To make a long story short: if you decide to work for Treehouse, assume ANY benefit or promise of future compensation is either a lie or could be taken away before long. Never have I seen an agreement violated so many times in such a short time. Aside form that, management seems to have no ability to leverage a great product - decisions, predictions and financial models are consistently half-baked or just plain wrong leading to recurring turmoil. Buyer beware.