Chegg Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
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Millions of people all around the world learn with Chegg. No matter the goal, level, or style, Chegg helps learners learn with confidence. We provide 24/7 on-demand support, and our personalized learning assistant leverages the power of artificial intelligence (“AI”), more than a hundred million pieces of proprietary content, as well as a decade of learning insights. Our platform also helps learners build essential life and job skills to accelerate their path from learning to earning, and we work with companies to offer learning programs for their employees. Chegg is a publicly held company and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG. For more information, visit www.chegg.com. read more
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PARTICIPANTS
669
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RATINGS
19053

Chegg Environment Employee Reviews

What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?

There is a lot of openness to ideas. Team members are also very honest, and feel free to express concerns as they arise, then work through them.

Review from Engineering Dept

People looking out for each other

Review from IT Dept

It's a people-first organization. People matter. It shows.

Review from Communications Dept

Work life balance is the most positice

Review from Marketing Dept

I enjoy being part of the ERGs and having time to connect with my cowu

Review from Marketing Dept

At Chegg, your co-workers care, your manager cares, and so does leadership.

Review from Communications Dept

Ability to support one another

Review from Engineering Dept

In almost three years at Chegg, I have yet to meet a person who is unwilling to help with work projects. It doesn't matter if we are in different departments or working on different projects, everyone is so helpful!

Review from Communications Dept

Engaging environment with fun people, especially those in Santa Clara.

Review from Operations Dept

We all have a shared purpose of helping individuals create a better future for themselves.

Review from Product Dept

Chegg and their people are very inclusive

Review from HR Dept

Teams are always offering events and programs to help you and keep you interested and improving.

Review from IT Dept

One team, one Chegg. I feel like I can talk to anyone no matter their position. I don't feel like their is a hierarchy.

Review from Engineering Dept

The oppourtunity to try something new

Review from Admin Dept

The student-first messaging that we reiterate on a consistent basis.

Review from HR Dept

The culture is caring and family friendly. It provides ERGs to support employees with different interests and goes above and beyond to bring people together to support our common goals.

Review from Communications Dept

As a remote employee, I can see the culture and feel connected. I think the connection happens mostly through our ERGs.

Review from HR Dept

They include and celebrate different traditions.

Review from Admin Dept

recognition and value of culture and environment

Review from Admin Dept

Its competitive and they rewaed oerformance. If things fo well theyll pivot in that direction

Review from Operations Dept

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

N/A - I think Chegg does a great job at fostering a fun and collaborative culture.

Review from Sales Dept

They need to be less beurocratic

Review from HR Dept

Invest the time and resources to do things the right way to reap compounding benefits down the road. Listen to the people who are hired to be experts on a particular subject instead of finding excuses to keep taking shortcuts

Review from Engineering Dept

The leadership need to be more transparent and truthful. At company-wide meetings, they make it sound like everyone is just DYING to go back to an office. However, every single meeting where regular employees interact, they all say they don't want to return to in-person office.

Review from Design Dept

Have a clear vision and understand how we should all work together. We have 3 parts to chegg and i dont think theyre on the same page. Then within those 3 parts, theres additional groups that don't understand what we should be doing or who should be doing it.

Review from Marketing Dept

- A regular feedback cycle - Minimize red tape and politics - Thoughtful process making

Review from Engineering Dept

Transparency in operational processes and productive collaborations

Review from Operations Dept

Structured work, more interactions with the team to discuss & individual goals, work assignments better

Review from Engineering Dept

Roadblocks should be less. All partied should be involved i roadmap formulations

Review from Marketing Dept

Engaging activities by informing manager that time line of work needs to plan accordingly or else we have to work extra hours to get ourselves engage in company organized activities.

Review from Operations Dept

focus more on customer experience and customer service

Review from Customer Support Dept

Review Sentiment at Chegg

94
94%
6
6%

About Chegg's Environment

A+
80/100

Where This Score Ranks Chegg's Environment

TOP
5%

In the Top 5% of 2025 similar size companies on Comparably

TOP
10%

In the Top 10% of 738 companies in San Francisco

1st

1st place versus 4 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Chegg is considered positive by 94% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 417 employees. Relative to its competitors, Udemy, Course Hero, Duolingo, and Quizlet, Chegg's environment score ranks in 1st place. This also puts them in the Top 5% of 2025 similar sized companies (1,001-5,000 Employees) on Comparably and Top 10% of 738 companies in San Francisco.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Department - Legal
    +8%
  • Department - IT
    +6%
  • Department - Sales
    +5%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Tenure - 2 to 5 Years
    -18%
  • Gender - Non-Binary
    -11%
  • Department - Finance
    -7%

How Chegg's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 665 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less10%
856%
1029%
123%
More than 122%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast18%
Comfortably fast63%
Moderate17%
A bit slow0%
Bureaucratic2%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive94%
Negative6%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes30%
No70%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes72%
No28%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less58%
5-10%26%
10-25%11%
25-50%4%
50%+1%
What % of the time are you bored at work?
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