Learning.com Reviews

Worked at Learning.com for 4-5 years now. For a time, it was a genuinely rewarding role — creative, collaborative, and rooted in a shared mission to make learning engaging for students. However, after the company was sold and new leadership stepped in, the culture took a noticeable turn for the worse. What was once an open, vibrant environment shifted into something stale, grey, and rigid. Open communication was discouraged, and an unspoken "do as you're told" mindset replaced any room for honest discussion or feedback. My team was dissolved, and I was moved under new leadership where the stress became overwhelming. I began experiencing heart palpitations due to the pressure and lack of psychological safety. I was unable to bring these issues up safely due to my managers aggressive and easily irritable attitude. The shift wasn't just cultural — it was also creative. The over-reliance on AI tools across the board, combined with stagnant wages and little to no input from actual educational and visual designers, made it clear that our voices and craft were no longer valued. The product itself began to reflect this shift — once colorful and dynamic, it started to feel as lifeless and disengaged as the new company culture. If you’re a professional looking for a place where your input is respected and your well-being is prioritized, I’d strongly recommend proceeding with caution.

Current CEO has turned the culture 180°; where leadership once supported collaboration and and promoted a positive culture built around actually equipping students with future-proof skills, the current CEO takes a “my way or be gone” attitude, constantly punches down and then apologizes, won’t listen to the input of others, and has completely turned the direction of the company into one that offers a solution that provides students with a software that “promotes a healthy relationship with technology,” whatever that means. Good luck getting districts to buy that as education budgets continue to shrink nationwide. Layoffs: after bringing in a 430% increase in new business in 2024, leadership then laid off 30% of the staff, mostly product developers and support personnel. This negatively impacted morale, and frustrated new and long-time partner districts. Update: more people laid off on 6/10/2025. Projected numbers are WAY off for the end of Q2. Maybe it’s not the reps’ fault, but the result of poor direction and moving too much cheese?