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Renaissance Learning

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Are you interested in working HARDER for less money every year? Then Renaissance is the place for you! - Account Executive Renaissance Learning Employee Review

2.0
10 May 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fantastic PTO and great benefits. Lots of company holidays. Depending on your manager, you can maintain a strong work life balance. Neat Employee Resource Groups to get involved in!

Cons

Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re going to see a large amount of sales reviews from late 2021 and early 2022. This is not a coincidence. The new CRO has fostered a truly negative sales culture and it is all coming to fruition. I’m shocked to see a company with such an amazing mission totally disregard it all for the bottom line. For example: they had clear qualification criteria for a mid year incentive trip…and changed it on the day they announced the qualifying salespeople so fewer people would get to go. Incredibly manipulative! Just as other reviews have stated, the quotas are becoming so ridiculously high, and the percentage one makes off of each sale gets decreased year over year. So yes, you will be selling more and making less. There is NO transparency around compensation and commission, and base pay is still well below market rates. When asked to discuss compensation, you will not even get an email response, much less an actual conversation. The company keeps purchasing more and more products at a completely unsustainable rate. We are told to sell the products without any knowledge of how the product integrates or what supporting it will even look like. Imagine how this looks to customers! Unfortunately, Renaissance’s greed has caused it to be a place to work where salespeople feel taken advantage of. People are leaving in DROVES. I truly would not recommend working here until there is new leadership.

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5.0
15 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Flexible, remote first, friendly team

Cons

Has had slow growth for several years

2.0
22 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Some of the most amazing people you’ll ever work with. Generally supportive peers. Leaders are kind and not intentionally toxic. Strong brand recognition and a variety of solutions to enable solution selling.

Cons

The culture of the organization seems to have succumbed to the broader climate surrounding politics and education. Immense pressure is placed on sales team to deliver in saturated territories with beyond unachievable quotas for some and cake quotas for others. No cost of living increases, lots of layoffs and unclear path for growth with an egregious lack of transparency from leadership about the glaring issues. NONE of this seems intentional or malicious-it just seems like a lot of behaviors caused by extreme desperation.

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