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      Thrive Learning

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      Thrive Learning reviews

      3.6

      66% would recommend to a friend

      (93 total reviews)

      65% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Senior management

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      Thrive Learning has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 93 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Thrive Learning employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      93 reviews
      1.0
      Jun 2, 2026

      Poor culture, leadership, and below average pay.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      WFH or hybrid work - some nice team members. Benefits a perks are similar to the standard across tech companies.

      Cons

      Not a great place to work. Disappointed in the culture and senior management, pay and progression appear to be based on a popularity contest and being a yes man/woman. Senior leadership lack experience, the business is constantly changing directions and there is a tendency to over-promise and under-deliver to employees. No internal HR, it’s simply an app managed by senior management, making raising concern and maintaining confidentiality impossible when wrongdoing takes place. There is no board of directors holding any senior management accountable. The way female leadership is portrayed is truly sad, simply done for social image. There is a yearly ski trip which you have to pay for half of… hard to attend if you have children, a health condition, or simply can’t afford it (don’t know many that can based on salaries, except for senior management). Especially if you don’t drink alcohol… all done for what they think are creative LinkedIn posts. Quite cringe. Not a lot of interest in DEI or to actually practice what they preach online. 5 star reviews here are either fake or heavily influenced by marketing. Lots of excuses not to offer fair pay and progression, they love to use “above and beyond” as a metric. The tech is scattered and extremely hard to work with internally. Ai is heavily integrated without knowledge or concern by the CTO. Don’t waste your time applying to work at Thrive.

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      Thrive Learning Response
      3w
      Thank you for your feedback. You mentioned that the People Team is simply an app. We have a People Team of five employees who are very much real people, not a system. They support every stage of the employee journey, from the moment someone applies for a role at Thrive through to when their time with us comes to an end. The team is visible, approachable, and covers talent and recruitment, HR, onboarding, legal, learning and development, finance, and wellbeing. We do use a Slack channel for some day-to-day queries, but this is managed and responded to by the People Team directly — not by senior management. We find it hard to reconcile this feedback with the experience of someone who worked with us for three to four years. Regarding the ski trip, last year 70 members of staff attended, many of whom are parents. We also had placement students and colleagues from our overseas offices join us. We plan the trip carefully to maximise accessibility and inclusion, and the broad range of roles and backgrounds represented by those who attended reflects that. On pay and progression, we are committed to structured and transparent career development based on clear performance criteria. We're proud of how many of our staff were awarded pay rises this year based on their performance. On diversity, equity and inclusion, this is not something we treat as a communications exercise. We have active initiatives in place and hold ourselves to measurable outcomes, not just public statements. We note this review has been posted anonymously, which makes it difficult to investigate your specific concerns or respond to them fully. We note that they also weren't raised during your employment but you are welcome to contact the People Team directly so that your experience can be properly and confidentially addressed. people@thrivelearning.com That offer is open to you. We wish you well in your next role.
      1.0
      May 20, 2026

      Not recommended

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      4 day work weeks in the summer.

      Cons

      You see mixed reviews on here. The 5s are from sales/marketing/customer success roles the 1s are from the product/technology team. To learn about the issues with the lack of planning and expectations, see the various other reviews. My main issue is with the lies the company dishes out when it comes to benefits. The unlimited holidays is (shocker) not unlimited. Fair enough if you want to have a cap on holidays, but ditch the false advertising. It’s also annoying that some employees are allowed to work abroad while others aren’t. You obviously have policies, so put them in the job advert rather than having people learn about them only after taking the job. If you’re consider accepting a role here, I’d advise you to look elsewhere.

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      Thrive Learning Response
      1mo
      Thank you for your feedback. As you know, all of our staff can work from overseas for a set amount of time each year and this increases with length of service. We think (and the feedback is) it's a great and really fair policy. If we put our full policies in the job advert, it would be a very long advert, that's why we put the highlights in. Our holiday policy is unlimited and is one of the many benefits we offer. There is an approval process because without one, we'd have no control over when time was taken which would impact the service we provide to our customers. We also want to make sure all staff have the opportunity to take holiday and it's not a select few or a particular team who take the most. With over 200 staff, if we didn't have a process we think it would be chaos but if you have suggestions as to how it could work please let us know. We're always open to receiving feedback!
      1.0
      May 13, 2026

      Smoke & Mirrors - don’t trust the fake reviews on here

      Marketing
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Flexible work environment Young culture Some good colleagues

      Cons

      That product is great but it’s clear that they need a shift in leadership. I was always told you know someone is fake nice when all they do is talk about how much they’ve helped people and all their good deeds… CEO/Co-CEO spends so much time on social media and getting out there just to PR themselves and talk about how great they are e.g. “I got gifted a Range Rover” / “look we’ve hired a co-CEO to show we support women”/ “we treated everyone to a ski trip”… all of these are just distractions to create noise around the company when they should be focusing their efforts internally. There is way to much emphasis on being part of the social drinking culture and being loud, that it completely disregards other employees that don’t drink or want to stay late. But the only way to get promoted is to be a part of this so called family. Additionally the CMO / co-CEO is perhaps the epitome of mean girl energy (which some people have stated) yet will always try to make face at these Women first conferences to yap about it on LinkedIn. It’s very clear that the people at the top of leadership have zero clue on giving company direction and when you look at their experience there isn’t much they’ve actually done

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      Thrive Learning Response
      1mo
      We're proud of the women we have in the leadership team here at Thrive and will keep celebrating them and their achievements both on social media and at events. We'll do it openly, without malice and never anonymously. As for the people at the top of the leadership team, where are you looking? From where we're standing, there isn't much they haven't done and there is so much more to come! If you are employed by us, you already know our 5* reviews aren't fake.
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