Administrate reviews

3.9

70% would recommend to a friend

(51 total reviews)

John Peebles

78% approve of CEO

66% positive business outlook

Administrate has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 51 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Administrate employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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51 reviews
1.0
May 30, 2026

Seriously unstable

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

4-day week and 7 weeks holiday per year

Cons

Crumbling tech stack running on old versions of libraries and runtimes with no strategy to upgrade. Constant redundancies; basically one round per year. The company has never made a profit in over a decade and struggles to find new customers while churning old ones. Career advancement is non-existent, with below industry standard salaries and sub-inflationary pay rises every year, with the pension also being the only benefit provided. Every new engineer, and all prior senior engineers are mandated to be on-call, and although there is a small monetary incentive, it's not really sustainable.

1.0
Jan 15, 2026

Too small

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

4-day work week, remote and good culture

Cons

Frequent layoffs... and the product is so outdated meaning it won't become anything special. An exciting exit strategy will be extremely unlikely.

4.0
Aug 28, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A great group of people to work under, the ambition of the company was inspiring. Ability to learn lots of new skills in a short time, respect for your own abilities and skills

Cons

As the company was still in start up mode when I joined, it was uncertain what money was available for new projects, and I didn't feel fully secure in my position

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