Cool product - extremely hard to monetize - Anonymous employee ClassDojo Employee Review

2.0
May 10, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Young and smart team - Cool product and features

Cons

- Shady SF office location with lots of homeless people around. At times, it can feel unsafe. Also the office space is small. - There's a few arrogant members. - Pretty hostile and unprofessional environment. Get things done cheaply and fast with little attention to code quality. If you are parents with kid, look elsewhere. This will drain all your energy. - Product is always free for teachers, and only target a subset of kids / schools from pre-k to elementary. It has a hard time trying to persuade parents paying. There is no incentive to pay for this product. Why do I need to pay extra while the core free app can do almost everything for free. Aside, there is no dedicated spot for ad revenue.

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5.0
Apr 30, 2026
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Pros

Awesome culture, high ownership mentality. Massive opportunity and vision.

Cons

Near term strategy and focus need refinement

5.0
Feb 9, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Like any company, your milage will vary by team and role, but this is by far the best job I've had and I've worked at many of the greats who supposedly have amazing cultures, but in my opinion don't live up to them. * High trust culture * Genuine willingness to give/receive actionable feedback without retribution (every company promises this, but ClassDojo is the only place I've seen it done successfully) * Decent pay. You'll make more at a public company, but base is good * Coworkers tend to be mission-driven and pleasant * Extremely flexible working hours. As long as you're communicative and get through a decent amount of work, you'll be fine. I'm not a workhorse and I've had no complaints about my output

Cons

There's no career progression. Everyone's at the same level on paper, but for the level of seniority that you're at by the time they would even consider you, this isn't meaningfully important to your trajectory. Plus you can put whatever you want on your resume/LinkedIn (a policy officially condoned by the company). Company focus is split way too thin. In order to succeed, we'll need to decide which bets to focus on and which to ramp down. Because they hire senior folks, a lot of times people do their pet projects instead of what's most important to the team. This means we build a lot of cool stuff, but have struggled to make real progress in our business.

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