Skillshare Reviews

3.4

52% would recommend to a friend

(63 total reviews)
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Matt Cooper

44% approve of CEO

36% positive business outlook

Skillshare has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 63 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Skillshare employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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63 reviews
1.0
15 Nov 2015

Good product, terrible culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great mission Creative colleagues Strong brand Excellent product design

Cons

Culture of micromanagement Public berating from CEO is common Fear breeds lack of innovation Zero ownership and autonomy Low levels of transparency Insular / diversity issues Senior managers often manipulative Noncompetitive salaries Poor onboarding practices High turnover

3.0
31 Dec 2019

Great on paper, but read between the lines

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Skillshare has a wonderful mission, a ton of talented people and a strong trajectory if it keeps up the commitment to quality content and users. Unlimited vacation, delicious catered lunch and a genuinely smart, funny, welcoming team.

Cons

This could be the best ever place to work, except for a few awkward decisions and policies that undermine morale, growth and yes, the product. There’s barely an HR team, and the promise of open-door, fully-transparent upper management has some glaring blind spots. The executive team isn’t receptive to repeated feedback around a few bad apples in management positions who consistently micro-manage, undermine and bully teammates. As a result, talented and motivated staff feel defeated and anxious to leave. Despite great policies on paper, Skillshare suffers from the same favoritism, pay disparities and lack of diversity as any many other startups.

2.0
26 Aug 2022

What Is The Plan?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Fully remote team - Many excellent peers

Cons

- Unstable prognosis after two rounds of layoffs - Meeting-focused culture (there are a lot of them, they are long, and they can disrupt focus if you aren't aggressive about your own calendar)

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Skillshare Response
3y
Thanks for sharing your feedback. We understand the feeling of uncertainty following our recent restructuring and layoffs and hindsight has been valuable to reflect on what we could have done differently. In this case, we should have moved forward with more aggressive plans a few months ago, even though that would have meant that more of our team would have been impacted during the initial round. We were trying to be as conservative as possible with the hopes of retaining as much of our amazing team as we could. While the recent changes have been difficult, they have put us on a much stronger financial footing and a path to positive cash flow in the near term. We are working closely with the department heads and team leads to ensure we focus our valuable time and efforts on the most impactful areas. We encourage you to raise any concerns with your manager or exec if you feel we need to prioritize further or need to be focused on different things to drive impact. We need everyone aligned, so we encourage you to raise anything that isn’t clear or isn’t aligned with our goals. As always, please share your feedback and ideas in our roundtable meetings or reach out to me, People Ops, or your manager or Exec to talk through any concerns or questions you have.
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