Illuminate Education Reviews

Pros

Flexible hours. Results-oriented focus. Leaders, not "managers." True passion for helping students and teachers through software products.

Pros

Everyone is passionate about what they do and truly want to help educators. We're growing fast and for the most part, it's exciting. Even with our growth, people take care of each other like a family.

Advice to Management

Stay the course! The changes that we're making keep the best of our culture while making sure that we stay competitive.

Pros

The mission and team are fantastic. Some of the best people and a mission you can believe in.

Advice to Management

Idk. Just try to do what's good for people.

Pros

Illuminate Education is full of some of the most passionate people anywhere. They really care about education and care about each other too. Like many successful companies, we outgrew the early structures and were struggling to deal with the increased size. The Founder & prior CEO knew this and brought in some leaders with more experience running larger businesses to help us, including a new CEO to take his day-to-day responsibilities. The former Founder is still involved and provides advice. While change can often be hard, it looks like good, positive changes are starting to happen and I'm optimistic about the future. Benefits are amazing, the culture is great, and it is good to be part of a company making such a big difference in education.

Advice to Management

Keep the great culture and just finish the business transformation. Also, more communication is never a bad thing. Illuminators were used to a very open environment but as we have grown make more effort to keep communicating with everyone.

Pros

Great data platform that can truly help teacher and administrators. Very powerful Data and reports.

Advice to Management

Hire people who truly understand education, and promote from within. Re-evaluate the current leadership team, because no one helps or listens, but they wonder why the results are not there.

Pros

Solid Product/aquisitions. Great benes.

Advice to Management

Bark less, listen more.

Pros

There are still some folks that are dedicated to making a difference in the lives of students.

Good health benefits.

Advice to Management

Don't ask your employees what they think if you don't care enough to listen to them.

Pros

The culture has remained mostly the same since the last CEO left. Honestly things actually feel like they're on the up and up. I can see deliberate growth, where we are headed, and I feel we have a tangible plan to actually get us there.

There seems to be more accountability and that was sorely lacking beforehand. People are actually expected to do their jobs and numbers are finally starting to matter. It feels like we are becoming a more stable, secure, and prosperous company.

What's really been exciting is watching the business strategies start to unfold and see what the longterm vision for the organization is. Finally people are starting to see that this is a company, not a place to hang out and wax poetically about educational concepts without actually doing any work. Everyone that is here seems to have a purpose and there is less wondering what someone does or why they are employed.

The folks who abused and exploited our company culture before are finally being asked to do what they are paid to do and it's extremely refreshing. You can no longer run to the former CEO to get to do what you want instead of going with what the company actually needs / the numbers are telling us is the right direction.

Benefits are really solid - great health, insurance, and flex schedules. Remote work is totally allowed and they provide good, new tech to employees.

If you have a family emergency or need to come in later, people totally understand. You don't need to take vacation hours because your kid is sick. It's awesome.

Advice to Management

Expect certain people to be upset for awhile but keep growing the company. Don't change the culture or values we hold. So far they haven't and we're hoping it stays that way.

Pros

-Good people work in the company

Advice to Management

Imagine thinking a grade level below your target audience

Pros

We are not a tiny company anymore and we are going through change. We have to and management is trying hard to listen and maintain the things that make us special.

Advice to Management

Keep on listening and helping us change.