Great engineers, poor leadership - Senior Software Engineer Instructure Employee Review

3.0
Jan 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- hired engineers are top 10% - engineers gets quite much freedom on technical things - salary was above average (not anymore)

Cons

- weak and most of the times incompetent leadership. Cronyism = friends hire other friends to C level - hire 100+ engineers in Q1 then layoff 60 in Q4 (not in same teams) - built a Ruby + Java based tech stack over years, hired ppl accordingly. Than decide to be a JS company - crunch time is heavy due to EU/US timezone diffs

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5.0
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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Hardworking people Great Teams Committed to a mission and vision to help teaching and learning for lifelong learning Continued progress and evolution of industry leading LMS Remote First AI-first mission

Cons

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