Schoology Reviews

Pros

- Super friendly and open culture
- You work with amazing clients
- A product and a mission that actually has an impact
- Lots of support from management and an eagerness to develop talent
-Fair compensation/Benefits
-Great PTO policy

Pros

- Great mission
- Great people
- Great product

Schoology is a great place to work for. It is a company full of open minded people. From the leadership down to every team member. It is incredible how much Schoology has been changing, for better!

Advice to Management

Keep the great work. Continue to empower people. Continue to invest on people. Everything else becomes easy. :-)

Pros

- Flexible work culture / strong work life balance if you are performing/hitting your goals (free food is also nice)
- Schoology (the product) is a strong product that many teachers & students really do love
- Established enough to have structure but young enough to still reap the benefits as far as relaxed culture and ability to have a voice both in your department and in your professional trajectory, also there's the option of wearing additional "hats" if you would like.

Advice to Management

Hiring process should be more rigorous and more structured across departments. Some managers join with no management experience and make poor hiring choices. Transparency has gone down a bit, with managers withholding information from their teams and leadership sugarcoating failures.

Pros

Awesome, smart, motivated, innovative co-workers, nice office space, good product, fair salary and good benefits.

Advice to Management

Be transparent, care about your human capital, invest in your people's growth

Pros

First in class product with an amazing mission. The community behind the product is inspiring and is constantly growing making your job more valuable and easier.

 I have been with Schoology for over 3 years. I started out as an account executive and quickly moved up the ladder. Once I identified the role I wanted to move into, management helped me hit that goal. We structured a plan and how I would get to the next level. Long as you are upfront about your short term and long term goals, management will do everything in their power to help you excel. Even if you want to switch departments or impact the company in another way, management will help you get to your goal.

What I like most is the ability to communicate and collaborate across departments and executives. If you need help, ASK. I have never been turned down or looked down upon asking for help. In fact, the company and all of management encourage you to do so. Even fellow co-workers will drop what they are doing to help you or answer questions. I see people say “departments work in silo” Yes they do when you do not interact with them. If you are going to sit at your desk all day and keep your head down, everything will look like it works in silo. Management makes it a thing to ensure we have group lunches and or group meetings with other departments. Show initiative and things won't look so black and white.

If you have something to say such as product improvements, working more efficiently or just overall feedback, management and executives listen. I have seen several of my coworkers ideas or feedback put into action and implemented. They really try to make this a great place to work and grow.

The office is great. Cold brew on tap along with a full kitchen fully stocked with snacks, food, and drinks. Most people don't pay for lunch and eat here at Schoology. It is still encouraged to go out and get air so please don't take this as they want you to stay in the office 24/7. They provide unlimited PTO and have an open policy about working from home. All you need to do is loop in your manager.

The other reviews discuss layoffs and recent firings. I, unfortunately, cannot attest to this as I have not seen this in a mass scale RECENTLY. A few years ago we did go through a round of layoffs and good people were let go. Yes I was upset but I watched them restructure the teams and quickly rehire amazing, smart, witty people. I feel that any company you work for will go through times that you do not agree with or decisions that do not sit well with you. I have seen my previous companies go through similar ups and downs.

My desire to stay and continue to grow at Schoology is not because of the office or unlimited PTO (which I do appreciate). Yet it is the desire to learn from management and the executives. We have recently brought in some amazing people at the executive level with the vision to get Schoology to the next level. I have been here for a while, I went through the growing pains, restructuring and confusing times. Yet at this current moment, our vision has never been more clear. Our ability to succeed has never been more outlined. I love that I have the chance to see Schoology at its most powerful point and watch us get to the next level. As of today, I am a very happy employee of Schoology.

Advice to Management

More team building events will bring team members together. This can also be beneficial for those who don't know each other in other departments.

Pros

- Ability to WFH whenever
- Snacks and drinks
- Lots of opportunities to influence change because it's a small company with open-minded people.
- Equity Options
- Hardworking, kind folks
- Unlimited Vacation

Advice to Management

I think things are going pretty well, but the recent firings and layoffs are worry-some. They also seem to be largely unaddressed - though I'm not sure what you would say. Losing a beloved, office staff member was really tough as far as trust and culture goes.

Diversity - keep pushing to be more inclusive and diverse. Set a goal for it and work towards that! We can do it if we make it a priority.

Consider more competitive compensation (bonus, 401k matching, etc)

Pros

- good vacation policy
- kitchen has plenty of free snacks and drinks, and beer and cold brew
- great mission and people
- after years of bringing leaders in from the outside, it was nice to see 3 existing employees get promoted to executives
- some executives were harder to approach than others, but over the past year the team has changed a lot and for the better
- formalized career paths have recently been laid out
- opportunity for promotion

Advice to Management

- be careful who gets hired. i have seen people come and go (or be fired). more often than not i hear comments about the person once they are gone. people are often surprised they were hired in the first place. when people here are happy to see someone go, it suggests we need to spend more time hiring the right people.

- it's hard to balance all the good with all the changes. i'm glad we have monthly company meetings and that numbers are shared with everyone. but maybe spend a few more minutes talking about changes when they are made so people understand why. it's hard to put together the fact that the numbers for the business are so good (everything is in green), yet there's still so much change and reorganization.

- keep on listening to your employees. many of the changes over the past year have been really positive (not all). i have loved working at schoology and hope to remain here for many years. the new president seems great. i hope i get to spend more time getting to know him. it was refreshing to see we hired someone who had a lot of education and technology experience.

Pros

Friendly Staff that love where they work

Pros

First in class product and easy sell to K-12 districts, and the mission behind the product is invaluable. Great job if you just graduated or looking for an entry level sales job. Free fresh direct, beer, drinks, snacks, etc and unlimited PTO.

Pros

1) Fresh Direct in office for when you don't feel like leaving to get lunch
2) Unlimited cold brew along with other beverages
3) Office is big, but can also seem under-utilized at times (there were talks to lease out desk space to other companies, but it was never implemented)
4) Good work/life balance - flexible hours, 9 to 5 for the most part
5) Casual office attire

Advice to Management

This was a company headed in the right direction that took a wrong turn. I would ask that you make it about the teachers and administrators and not about the money.