Going Downhill - Anonymous employee Imagine Learning Employee Review

2.0
5 Oct 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great coworkers, opportunity to make a difference for students. Fairly good work-life balance.

Cons

Senior leadership is incredibly out of touch. Earlier this year, the leadership told everyone that nobody would be getting raises for the second year in a row "because of declining sales", and then they turned around and spent millions of dollars on a shiny new office. I used to love working at IL back before Jonathan Grayer took over, but he clearly only wanted Imagine Learning for the name and not for the people. Most people that were part of IL before the merger were forced out within a year or two. Jonathan Grayer doesn't inspire the employees; he uses fear to get people to do what he wants. He even made "Founder" part of his official job title when he was absolutely NOT the one that founded Imagine Learning (Sue Preator did).

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Pros

Data driven with a focus on character.

Cons

Full 5 days of school instead of 4.

3.0
18 May 2026
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Pros

Broadly, Imagine Learning provides an opportunity to grow and develop your skills if not your actual career. The work-life balance is good to great, depending on time of year, and middle-management and senior leaders are generally supportive if not always biased to action. The people you work with are the reason you show up every day.

Cons

For the last several years, Imagine Learning has been in a slow but steady decline both financially and culturally. Revenue targets continue to be out of line with market realities and missed. This has resulted in reduced or outright skipped pay raises and bonuses. This has also triggered an increasing focus on AI-based tools and workflows, without proper overhead and resourcing to learn and integrate them intelligently. The company has let long-tenured, respected and talented staff slowly bleed away and has done very little to address the absence left behind. There is an unspoken theme of "do more with less" that has set in and people complain about burnout almost weekly. Coupled with an ever-changing organizational structure and a lack of clear, decisive and consistent vision, the chaos-to-order balance is starting to tip the wrong direction. I would have wholeheartedly recommended Imagine 3-4 years ago but not today.

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