Toxic chaotic hustle startup culture - Avis employé Employé (anonyme) Rize Education

Smartest people I've ever worked with, all working on some big problems, passionate about higher education. Creative owners, driven, thoughtful - it's the best place I've ever worked.

None for me, but I think the pace at a fast-moving start-up in a changing space has to be a fit for your personality.

- incredibly smart, generally nice bunch of coworkers - founders and (most) senior leaders are very capable, thoughtful, and kind - very autonomous culture with work that’s not too taxing

- there is a push to use AI to generate courses wholesale. Imo this is negligent to the students who enroll in the courses. It’s an edtech company, but don’t think it’s truly mission driven. The founders are ex finance guys and it shows. - nominal focus on improving employment outcomes for students, but the bills are paid by running financial turnarounds at struggling campuses. They’re not serious about improving job or educational outcomes. Producing outcomes for students is a harder problem to solve to be sure, but would be much more meaningful if they could solve it. Otherwise why are you in edtech? Instead they focus on making margin on their courses and consulting services. - office politics and gossip are prevalent. - there’s a turnover problem