Avantages
Opportunity to work with incredibly smart individuals across departments who care deeply about Codecademy's mission. You will have the ability to work on a product that is impacting the lives of many which feels good. Pretty office, tons of snacks, catered lunches 4 days a week. Great health benefit plans, and high salaries for a company of this size. Great resume builder. Not a micromanaging organization at all, however, you're expected to work autonomously with little direction which doesn't work for everyone.
Inconvénients
Absent, inexperienced CEO. Codecademy is at a point where the company desperately needs someone to step into an operational leadership role before the company is run to the grown by inexperienced "executives". Uncertainty around the direction of the product. The ed tech space in incredibly crowded, and Codecademy needs to figure out what the core product really is to be able to develop a sustainable business model. Power mongering politics exist at the VP level, and favoritism runs rampant. At times, senior team members and executive abusively speak down to their colleagues or suborindates and no one bats an eye. Curriculum team is treated like second class citizens, yet they're responsible for creating the content that brings in money. Engineers and product managers are put on pedestals. Very high turnover, including many of the individuals most passionate about the mission. Lack of growth or mobility opportunities. A big reason so many team members leave at the 1-2 year mark. Lack of company values. We added a "bar raiser" interview which negatively impacted hiring and made many feel that they weren't good enough to work for Codecademy anymore. Lack of work-life balance. DO NOT mention work life balance, you will be shunned and considered an underperformer.