Pros
-Had the opportunity to help people learn a valuable skill, which was very satisfying. -Was once full of talented, hardworking people who were working on a few products they shared a common passion for. -The team was generally nice and easy to get along with before they were mostly let go. -At one point, had a thriving community full of learners that could help each other along with supportive staff. The Discord channel is now barren.
Cons
-Pay for instructors is poor and lags the market. No system for royalties means they can use you to make a course, let you go, and keep collecting money from your work indefinitely. -Marketing and sales seemed to be disconnected from what was happening in course development and student experience, leading to friction. -Upper management could never seem to decide on a game plan that stuck. Lots of pivoting. Possibly due to pressure from higher-up at Avenue Living. Little to no transparency into decision making was provided. -The company culture combines the cringey aspects of a corporate environment with the pay of a scrappy start-up. Make no mistake: parent company Avenue Living is not a start-up. -Some of the best Bootcamp students still don't have jobs years later which makes me uncomfortable considering how much the "career" aspect of them is pushed in Circuit Stream's marketing.
