Great people and culture! - Anonymous employee MagicSchool AI Employee Review

Working at MagicSchool has been an incredibly rewarding experience. The company's mission to empower educators and transform education is at the heart of everything. There’s a strong sense of collaboration across teams, and everyone is kind, curious, and eager to solve meaningful problems. I’ve appreciated the autonomy given to engineers, as well as the focus on innovation and learning. It’s refreshing to be part of a team where ideas are welcomed and fast iteration is encouraged. Plus, the flexibility and respect for work-life balance make it a sustainable and enjoyable place to work.

Things move quickly and priorities can shift, which is exciting but may not be for everyone. Growing quickly comes with occasional ambiguity, but leadership has been proactive in addressing this.

The EPD team is mostly full of incredible, smart, kind people who are an absolute joy to work with. The team knows how to have fun and when to get serious. The CTO and VP of engineering are genuinely good people who care about their employees and know what they are doing. Honestly almost every IC in other departments I've worked with are extremely collaborative and good at their jobs. Helping teachers in your day to day job feels incredible, and they genuinely love the product.

Executive leadership has a very hard time trusting people. Their is very little respect for the product team and product direction mostly comes top down and feedback is not really invited. The CEO and president can't align on anything and it leads to very inconsistent product direction, way too much micro management and a ton of frustration for EPD. Some of the strongest EPD employees have left, and I know more are planning to if things don't change drastically, and soon. Top leadership exhibits some sexist tendencies that go unchecked because he is unable to receive feedback. If you apply here ask about product direction and roadmap, all about ratio of PMs to engineers, I think the answers to those questions would be telling regarding if things have improved since the writing of this review.