Coursera Employee Reviews about "mission driven"

Pros

Good vacation time and benefits, impact driven company mission that motivates employees working there to improve people’s lives through education

Cons

Conflict and politics within and between cross-functional teams and verticals. Not everyone is set up for success and given equal opportunity.

Pros

Mission driven company, people are personally driven to help each other.

Cons

processes are inefficient and can get in the way of success

Pros

Mission Driven Fun loving Young Diverse Work life balance Kind culture Supportive Flexible

Cons

Not very innovative Slow paced Limited cross functional collaboration Salary and stock options lower

Pros

Great perks and benefits, smart and driven team, excellent mission

Cons

It's a start up, so leadership can be unaligned at times and the goals can get blurry.

Pros

Mission driven founders - who unfortunately do not matter anymore Great content and university credentials- but slowly losing edge to others

Cons

Pathetic culture- high nepotism. No place for merit. If you are in the old boys club- you get everything/ even when underperforming. You just need to butter up the VP / SVP. Very poor HR team - no integrity. Just subservient to business. Culture of lying at the time of hiring - they bamboozle you with false job narratives - once in / u r stuck by the time you discover above Extremely inexperienced leadership in Enterprise Strategy - has no clue on sales planning that is leading to unrealistic goals.

Pros

Very mission driven, accessible and transparent leadership

Cons

we work at breakneck speed !

Pros

Great work culture Wonderful colleagues Truly mission driven Employee friendly- yet result oriented Remote first work culture

Cons

Unlike other startups - slower to react to market Super conservative in driving innovation

Pros

Great people and culture, very mission driven

Cons

Not always the highest standards for code quality

Pros

There are some great, genuine people here. Cool brand. At one time was mission driven. Company values are good, but the CEO does not care if employees actually exemplify those values.

Cons

No real stability, just went through a round of layoffs and got rid of people that were posting revenue positive results. Kept a number of incompetent managers. Check Re-code for more details. As mentioned, many managers are incompetent and just follow the newest shiny object, rather than making decisions that demonstrate actual understanding of the business and techniques to hit goals. Worse still, there is rampant nepotism. The Stanford mafia is real! Read the experience of executive staff and one level down, it will quickly become clear that many are not qualified for the positions they occupy. There are essentially no promotions and those who are promoted receive that recognition because of relationships, not performance. The new CEO, Jeff Maggioncalda, has run 1 company before Coursera, not a great choice for this growth company. Additionally, he laid off 15% of the company, not based on performance, even though $60M was just raised. Does he even have a heart? Benefits aren't great, e.g. no 401k matching.

Pros

Awesome coworkers. Mission driven Great open transparent culture.

Cons

Could be a little bit more strict on spending.