Instructure Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.6

70% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)
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Steve Daly

30% approve of CEO

26% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Instructure with 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Instructure is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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21 reviews
3.0
Apr 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Smart colleagues - Somewhat competitive salary - Flexible working hours - Health insurance (Medicare) - Good office space / equipment - Office lunch

Cons

- Hire C# developers, then decide it's a Java company - Hire Java developers, then decide it's a Javascript company - Oncall is not paid for, which is extremely unfair at the very least. Some teams have no oncall, some teams you're on rotation every 3 weeks with constant issues Since KKR acquired the company: - Announce extra vacation time for Hungarian employees, then go back on it 2 weeks later - Loss of RSU package, replaced with a system that's worse in every aspect, we can't even guess how much it's going to be worth and it's only paid out if you stay with the company for 3-5+ years when KKR decides to sell the company and even then, they have no legal obligation to pay it out as it's not an RSU or a stock option - Wellness benefits essentially halved in Hungary, calling it "regional price adjustment" - Low pay raise - Hire 100 new people, then let go of 60, all in the span of 6 months - Back to office policy on whim (2-3 days per week), despite not even having enough office tables + chairs and the fact that most people are doing overtime in the late evening to have more overlap with the US collegues

4.0
Feb 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice job environment, etc, etc.

Cons

No cons at this stage that i can think of.

3.0
Jan 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- hired engineers are top 10% - engineers gets quite much freedom on technical things - salary was above average (not anymore)

Cons

- weak and most of the times incompetent leadership. Cronyism = friends hire other friends to C level - hire 100+ engineers in Q1 then layoff 60 in Q4 (not in same teams) - built a Ruby + Java based tech stack over years, hired ppl accordingly. Than decide to be a JS company - crunch time is heavy due to EU/US timezone diffs

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