Educative Reviews

You'll learn more from random blog posts on line than this "course" site.

I have taken multiple courses in Educative. None of the courses turned out to be good.
They don't explain things well. I feel, reading a book is better.
In the doubts section, they'll answer only if they know. If you ask anything complicated, they won't answer, you'll have to find it yourself

I feel that this site has very, very superficial tutorials. The guidance on how to build applications is very sketchy, and you end up wasting time online to find solutions because they do not provide enough information. If you need support, it is very difficult to obtain. You can 'ask a question', which opens up a forum. The tool they give you to ask a question is just atrocious, almost impossible to use.
I have definitely wasted my money.

Received free access through the GitHub access for students program - and it's not worth 'free'.

The number of grammatical errors? Astronomical, and surprising. The content desperately needs review by a professional editor and native English speaker.

As well, the content is too 'bro' for me, informal and conversational, when I'm trying to learn a programming language.

Finally, the course creators need to take an educational design class before creating new content. Concepts aren't explained before using them, and there's a lot of "Bro, you know this already, right? Of course, you do," when of course, I'm taking this course to learn something new. So, no, I don't know this already, right?

The only thing I do enjoy about Educative is that they focus on written documentation, not videos that I'll just read the transcripts for anyway.

Worst customer service for a website that educates people. I got charged for an automatic annual renewal subscription and there is no way to get a refund. I guess this is their way of educating people to be careful with online scams. Its reputation does not worth your money! Find other sources to study my friends.

I had the same experience in which they charged me 199 by saying it was 16 dollars for a month. I read this happened with others too. This is definitely a scam can we please get together to report this scam ?

Can we provide similar reviews so people are aware before they sign up.

There is no way to cancel my subscription. They billed me $199 and gave me no receipt and no access to the classes or any content. They won't cancel or refund my money because they said I need an order number that I never received and cannot be found on the website.

Definitely a scam. Will be reporting this company to BBB and consumer reports while I battle with my credit card company to recover the stolen money.

Fantastic platform with a wide variety of high-quality courses and is very affordable for the knowledge you gain. I have used it for interview preparation and will be keeping an active subscription to continue learning.

A company is only as good as their customer support and educative.io just proved how unethical they are.
Here is the story.
Almost 7 months back I subscribed to their 1 month subscription (on my part it was a mistake not to realise it was a recurring one). I got the below email confirming the order.
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Hi...,
Thanks for choosing Educative for your learning needs. Here's the order confirmation for your subscription to Educative Unlimited.

Package: 1 months
Amount paid: $53
Order ID: ------
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There were no further receipts from them for the 6 months that followed. I realised almost after 7 months that it was a recurring one. I raised this with their customer support requesting a refund which was first rejected and then taken to their management for approval and it was rejected again. Now, one would presume they would have done their due diligence before rejecting my request but I guess they did not. I never used their service after the first month's usage and they should be able to corroborate that by verifying the access log from their end. Now with all this knowledge (that it was genuine mistake from my end for thinking this to be a one-time payment and that I haven't accessed their service in the last 6 months) any company with moral and ethical values would have refunded this but they decided to keep the money. I will let everyone else decide if this is a company you would "educate" yourself with.

Bordering a scam. Very short trial and charge you with the highest possible default (two years).

As previous reviewer wrote. Almost like a scam. Very short trial and charge you with the highest possible default (two years).

They claim to offer free trial, but once you enter your card digits, it appears to be just a clickbait.
I guess there is not much to expect from these guys. Looks like yet another scammer in the internet.
I would suggest to steer clear. Unless you want some bad experience.