Udacity Reviews

Pros

You can do it from home

Cons

Salary is base on how many student are assign to you.

Pros

Work life balance and a product that delivers real outcomes. Udacity was one of the first companies I. This space, and is #1 as far as delivering real learning outcomes. Our enterprise offering continues to evolve and is very consultative in nature

Cons

Cultural differences across leaders from the states and overseas + a lot of executive turnover made things a bit wonky for a while

Pros

The Mission of the company

Cons

Incompetent leadership before and after the layoff Incredibly competitive space with all the quality free content out there, why would anyone pay a high price. The company continue to struggle to differentiate itself, the future isn't bright for employee and investors.

Pros

Wellness days, unlimited PTO, decent pay

Cons

Revolving door of leadership. Every day it seemed someone was coming or going and priorities/strategies changing. I don't think the company knows where it wants to go.

Pros

The people are generally nice, and the product is changing lives globally.

Cons

1. HR is a joke. No questions during company-wide meetings are answered. Questions on Slack are always responded to with, "I'll DM you." Promises made are never kept. 2. Absolutely no interest in DEI initiatives. Ever since the employee-driven DEI committee was disbanded by HR, employees have been asking...err begging...for HR to do something, anything. They haven't. And have no real answers to when they will start. 3. Very seasoned employees leave without any communication from HR, aside from a template email telling employees what to do with their laptops. No exit survey. No exit interview. To me, this signifies a company that has no interest in how employees actually feel or what opinions employees may have. For claiming to be "candid and direct", the company certainly does not listen to their people. They only expect their people to listen to Leadership. 4. Leadership turnover is very frequent. Not sure why the CEO seems untouchable when leaders in almost every other position have left in the last 2 years. 5. There is zero transparency into pay equity or diversity within the company. Shame. 6. Employees are reprimanded for asking "hard questions" and for seeking growth opportunities on other teams.

Pros

Cool mission, interesting work, and plenty to do. I still give the company 2 stars, even after being part of a recent layoff, so that says something.

Cons

As mentioned, I was recently part of the layoff that Udacity had. This is the second set of wide-scale layoffs in the last 5 years (I wasn't at the company yet for the previous one). In all honesty, my time at the company was good, there were fun and engaging challenges and gained a lot of good experience. However, stability has been non-existent within the company (and likely will continue to be non-existent for some time). Even prior to layoffs, there was high executive turn-over and a lack of a clear vision and strategy going forward. Sales cycles were long and challenging, even before the economic outlook started to shift. The company had recently released a new set of strategic goals, and then within 2 months later announced layoffs that will undoubtedly completely blow up those goals that they just set. The layoff felt very panicked and premature with a focus on cutting some costs short-term, at the detriment of preserving long term value and company culture. Just 2 months prior to the layoffs, the exec team was reassuring the whole company that we were in a good place financially. I've spoken to many employees who were not laid off, and pretty much any faith or trust in the leadership is gone. I would avoid this company for some time, and maybe (hopefully) they are able to turn things around several years from now, because they really have a great mission and great product.

Pros

Colleagues were great, free lunch

Cons

Constant layoffs, poor management, founder and past CEO was unpredictable and offensive, not good for minority candidates, heavy monitoring of employees, experienced sexism/double standards and witnessed racism, stressful with impossible demands, toxic company culture, would never recommend

Pros

Great mission driven company with a project that frankly anyone interested in serious technical learning ought to try.

Cons

Challenges balancing the needs and wants of the consumer with the enterprise

Pros

Good mission and colleagues that care for the most

Cons

Probably the worst leadership team in the history of startups (CEO is definitely the worst I've *and probably you* have ever worked with)

Pros

Very satisfying company to work for, making a good impact on the world. Leadership team really cares about the product and the people.

Cons

Only the same constraints lots of start up type companies have, sometimes funding is limited.