Newsela Environment Employee Reviews | Comparably
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Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Texts are published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, more than 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that’s accessible to everyone, aligned to standards, and attached to activities and reporting that provide visibility into what students are learning and how teachers are leveraging the content in instruction. With more than 15,000 texts and 10 new texts published daily across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any topic they choose. read more
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EMPLOYEE
PARTICIPANTS
108
TOTAL
RATINGS
3099

Newsela Environment Employee Reviews

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

Newsela listens to its employees and keeps them informed. I don't feel in the dark about decisions like I have at past companies.

Review from Customer Success Dept

Unique backgrounds, a lot of educators.

Review from Sales Dept

the members of my team

Review from Sales Dept

The culture promotes individuals to be themselves, and accepts all as long as you are doing your job.

Review from Sales Dept

The remote first mentality is very positive at Newsela.

Review from Customer Success Dept

Newsela has done a great job of building a culture of inclusivity that fosters a collaborative work environment, and also enable us to hold our customers and partners accountable to inclusive practices as well.

Bery flexible and accomodating to work life balance wnd family life

Review from Customer Success Dept

The culture is open and accepting of all people, backgrounds and races,

Review from Customer Success Dept

The work life balance. The ability to do rewarding work and not stress is huge

Review from Marketing Dept

The gifts that Newsela sends us.

Review from Sales Dept

Affinity groups that offer support to different communities.

Review from Marketing Dept

Companies willingness to spend to get teams in person.

Review from Sales Dept

The company is intentional and reflective about our culture and constantly strives to do better.

Review from Sales Dept

Everyone checks their ego at the door...no one gives off the feeling they are 'better' than anyone else

Review from Customer Success Dept

Everyone respects each other's personal space and promotes personal well-being.

Review from Customer Success Dept

This organization is the best I've ever seen when it comes to sharing quick and empathetic responses to traumatic global or national events.

Review from Finance Dept

Collaboration at Newsela is great. If I need something to get my job done, I can count on others to assist me.

Review from Sales Dept

Work/life balance is respected & encouraged

Review from IT Dept

It's genuine - our mission is crucial and everyone is on board. People are warm and funny - there is no cynicism or toxicity at Newsela.

Review from Sales Dept

How inclusive and how enriching the work we do is it really reverberates throughout the company. People are always looking for new ways to make the classroom experience better no matter which position you are in at Newsela.

Review from Engineering Dept

What needs to change to make the company culture better?

Transparency and honesty. Truly listen and care about your employees. Stop being hypocritical. Have some more self-awareness and put aside your ego.

Review from Engineering Dept

More focus on company culture, honestly. We're pretty light on culture building.

Review from Engineering Dept

Review Sentiment at Newsela

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96%
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4%

About Newsela's Environment

A+
84/100

Where This Score Ranks Newsela's Environment

TOP
5%

In the Top 5% of 1590 similar size companies on Comparably

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Not enough ratings to compare against companies in Buffalo, NY

1st

1st place versus 4 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Newsela is considered positive by 99% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 65 employees. Newsela ranks in the Top 5% of 1590 similar sized companies (201-500 Employees) on Comparably.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Department - Marketing
    +4%
  • Ethnicity - Hispanic or Latino
    +3%
  • Experience - 1 to 3 Years
    +3%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Department - Customer Success
    -4%
  • Ethnicity - Asian or Pacific Islander
    -4%
  • Department - Business Development
    -3%

How Newsela's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 105 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less9%
859%
1028%
124%
More than 120%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast19%
Comfortably fast62%
Moderate15%
A bit slow4%
Bureaucratic0%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive99%
Negative1%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes0%
No100%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes80%
No20%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less68%
5-10%21%
10-25%9%
25-50%2%
50%+0%
What % of the time are you bored at work?
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