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Educational Initiatives

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A mixed bag, but not a terrible place to work - Education Specialist Educational Initiatives Employee Review

3.0
Jan 29, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

* A lot of interesting people work at Ei. Fun to work with them * Opportunities to travel according to the projects you get - field visits, trainings, etc are common * You can carve out your own career and switch departments if you know how to network well inside the company. * Pay is good and comes on time.

Cons

* Micromanagement: management needs a count of every hour of your time, very little space to innovate and create. * Terrible systems: most of your time will be spent doing mundane tasks like copy-pasting, porting across systems, etc that can be easily automated. * No work-life balance because understaffed: taking leaves is difficult, you may get blamed(!) for taking your paid time offs. Overtime & weekend work is common. *No quality work. A lot of firefighting and chasing (&missing) deadlines due to rapid influx of projects. Teams don't get the time to build capacity or systems, leading to subpar delivery. Very unsatisfactory work. * A lot of unnecessary compulsory meetings and team calls that eat up into our work hours and make us extend work late into the night/weekend

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2.0
May 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- good engineering problems at hand - gives space for you to grow and experiment - flexible WFH arrangement - good for freshers

Cons

- the new hires are mostly from a particular region and from particular colleges and the quality of new hires has gone down drastically - company has started counting hours spent in office, no one knows how this data will be used later - no mid level engineers, freshers are doing the heavy lifting - most seniors see the org as a retirement home and are not very serious - too much reliance on AI without doing a cost benefit analysis (if AI providers increase prices, this org will be paralysed) - juniors are being pushed to work only with AI and the fundamentals are missing and seeing the codebase, the products are bound to have a lot of bugs in the future and will have to retire the system and build again

3.0
May 25, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Colleagues are good and friendly.

Cons

Mandatory 3 days a week, counting hours. Bureaucratic.

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