Duolingo Reviews

Pros

Caring culture, kind people, great mission, good work life balance, lots of social events

Cons

may end up on platform you didn't want, differing workloads/team but pay is same

Pros

People are encouraged to experiment here and failing is part of learning and growing. In general there's a lot of autonomy, too. Pay is more than fair and the perks are insane. You think free coffee is cool? Duolingo does that and a million other things to make employees feel appreciated and connected to one another.

Cons

It's common that there are a lack of resources by team. People get stretched thin. And while it does promote creativity and enable people to pick up new skillsets or receive accolades for being agile team players, it can get exhausting at times, too.

Pros

Very nice offices, very generous perks, and some super awesome colleagues.

Cons

I once heard Duolingo described as the Good Place and thought it was spot on. Very shiny happy environment on the surface that gaslights you into thinking you're the only one not having a good time. Meanwhile there is relentless pressure to grow exponentially, widespread severe burnout, and an organizational culture that either encourages or at least sanctions systemic micromanagement. I don't think it was always this way, but has gone downhill in the last year or so unfortunately.

Pros

- Generally a joy to show up to work every day. - Excellent engineering culture. Everyone I worked with seemed to be genuinely excited to be there solving problems and working on new things. - Management highly values employee satisfaction and career growth. I had lots of opportunities to learn new skill and take on new challenges.

Cons

- Living in Pittsburgh isn't for everyone and most positions are located there. - The company has grown a lot over the last few years which has made for constant change in teams, people, processes, features, code/architecture, just about everything. This isn't really a con for the right type of person and it may mellow out as the company transitions out of the late stage startup phase but be prepared for a very dynamic environment.

Pros

Great benefits, career opportunities and resources to achieve them.

Cons

Too focused on in-office experience, would love it if we had more flexibility to work remotely.

Pros

Nice office, polite people, good product

Cons

Midlle management is not great

Pros

Most people are kind, it's still small enough that you get to make a visible impact even without a lot of experience

Cons

I guess with any growing company there are some struggles with figuring out the right level of bureaucracy

Pros

Pros - Fun culture and coworkers - overall good work/life balance (but not everyone feels comfortable saying no) - Ship early and often, see real impact

Cons

Extreme micromanagement at every level of product development - your career is determined by if the CEO like you or not - very clique-y culture - top-down environment - silo's are evervwhere - sexism from upper management

Pros

Generally kind people the company is mission driven and talent dense

Cons

Two coworkers fired within the same month in data science, one for very bogus reasons. Data scientists are largely analysts making dashboards or data engineers cleaning data.

Pros

The mission of making language education available and free is very clear, and there are a lot of really good people working toward that. Diversity and fairness is important to the company culture, and the company puts it into action every day.

Cons

Priorities can change pretty quickly, so sometimes longer term goals remain at a high level and mismatch a bit with the problems of the day. This tends to get worked out at quarterly boundaries.