Pros
Though I am leaving a negative review, it does not detract from the fact that some of the people I worked with were quite lovely. The children as well were, for the most part, awesome as well that it makes it hard to leave them behind. Pay was amazing. I had very good work-life balance outside of sacrificing my weekend mornings and weekday evenings. But it was a small price to pay because it meant that I can still enjoy my weekend evenings and have really lazy weekday mornings. Company parties were always amazing, and really fun because Codeverse is a small company so everyone knew everyone. It was one big hang out.
Cons
I want to first say that I was asked twice to write a positive Glassdoor review, I will be writing an honest review instead. Scheduling can be very inconsistent. Sometimes you might have a lot of hours, others you might be really reaching for any chance to work more. From my 2 year tenure at Codeverse, I did not see any growth in my role or position. I was approached a few times about a hint in where my role would expand, but never saw any light from it. It may be different for other people, but I can say that my role became stagnant and despite having contributed so much to improving things I never saw any formal push to increasing my influence or responsibilities. The classroom can get very overwhelming very quickly. Students are on an individual track, which is great for them, but you're discouraged from sitting down with them and working through a concept that they might not be familiar with. Classes are sometimes big, and camps are often very big. You're sometimes left exhausted by the end of it because of the small staffing. It becomes more difficult when there's a student with special needs or a student who does not know how to read or write as well. Training was rare and often left you with more questions than when you came in with. I often felt unprepared because a lot of times, things didn't really apply the same way in a classroom than it does in training and I never saw real life examples applied in the same setting. Most, if not, all of the advanced knowledge in coding is needed to be done on your own time, and were often taught in sub-optimal ways. The program is very buggy. It leads up to a lot of frustration between yourself and the student that you work with whenever something goes wrong. I was always told that "it's part of being a start-up", but I always felt that the end user should not be suffering from these sorts of things frequently. We seldom get to do any external activities. We don’t really do much robotics, or 3D printing. When we do have those activities available (mostly during day camps), I always felt like we were very unprepared.
