Glassdoor reviews

3.9

66% would recommend to a friend

(1,113 total reviews)
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Owen Humphries

84% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Glassdoor has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,113 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Glassdoor employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Jul 21, 2020

Big joke

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Pros

Worked with some really goof people in Chicago - many let go like myself.

Cons

CEO who is unqualified and never should have been running the company. Who put this joker in place? So awkward when he speaks - really know nothing. Why is he still there when 300 of us were let go? He lied to us. A website that is slow and not easy to navigate.

1.0
Mar 13, 2020
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Pros

Nice office, great health benefits, good clients, and some really fun coworkers

Cons

I thought this was a dream company but then realized its composed of individuals who are resistant to change and forward thinking. The culture has turned around within a year and now is toxic. People are unhappy and rapidly leaving while leadership continues to distance themselves from problems. We strive to be the best of the best (as we should since we are a review site for companies) but fall short in culture, internal communication, vacation benefits, and innovation. Front line managers and directors are out of touch with the day to day workload and job duties. They are almost never in contact with clients and lack the skill and willingness to support you with internal navigation and problem solving because of system problems. Employees are rewarded for staying quiet and putting their head down instead of welcoming feedback, new ideas, and improving the status quo. Colocation is encouraged by leadership but not enforced for themselves. Without local leadership, the culture will continue to deteriorate. Unlimited PTO removed on 2/1/2020 as we are now hourly employees. Work life balance was one of the main reasons people stuck around. But now more and more teammates are leaving each month. Rollout of this change was poorly communicated caused more disconnect with leadership. CSMs partner with sales to service and renews accounts, however there is a huge imbalance of work between the two teams. They have been working on roles and responsibilities for MONTHS and NOTHING has changed. Again, another way that this team is unwilling to face problems and work on positive outcomes.

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Glassdoor Response
6y
Dear Chicago CSM Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback. It’s clear that you’re feeling frustrated and discouraged by your experience at work, which isn’t what I would want for you. I’m disappointed to hear your experience of the culture. Innovation is one of the core values of the business, so I expect all of our teams and leaders to embrace ideas which help us work more effectively and improve the customer experience. We recently launched the new “Feedback Tool” to surface ideas and potential innovations across all CS teams - no doubt there is room for us to leverage this tool more deeply. If there are specific areas where you believe we’ve not done enough to innovate, please share with me directly - I’d welcome those insights. More broadly, myself and the leadership team have been thinking about reinvigorating the CS culture and will be sharing some updates at an upcoming All Hands. I understand your concerns with the change to PTO plans that were announced in February. I’m also aware that my communication of these changes missed the mark for many people. I’m glad that we have been able to work with HR and address the root cause by establishing an open-PTO allowance for all non-exempt employees across the company. I appreciate that reviewing roles and responsibilities for our Sales and CS functions has taken time. The work involved was significant and has produced a 12-month enablement program to support the change management needed. However, in light of the recent restructure of our go-to-market teams, we’re holding off on implementation until we’ve worked through the operational implications of these broader changes. Thank you again for your feedback - I hope this guidance is helpful. Chris, VP Customer Success
3.0
Sep 18, 2019
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Pros

Amazing benefits program, casual office, free snacks, tons of events and happy hours. Great existing product that works really well, and some of the best people you'll ever work with.

Cons

Glassdoor is in the critical stages of post-startup mode. The acquisition by Recruit Holdings was supposed to provide the financial backing and fuel needed to accelerate the already high growth the company was experiencing. Instead it's left the organization in a sea of turnover (particularly in leadership) and left boots on the ground employees with far more questions than answers. For a company who's entire existence is centered around employer transparency, internal communications are impressively opaque. Changes continue to be communicated last minute and fundamental business issues go months without any updates from leadership. As someone on the sales team, the 4 departments that support sales efforts (being Marketing, Product, Sales Operations, and Sales Enablement) are all woefully incompetent and mismanaged. Marketing has no idea how to string together grammatically correct sentences, let alone educate employers on our unique value proposition. Product has finally pushed forward 1 meaningful update to the solution that we can sell, the first in the nearly 19 months I worked here. I legitimately have no idea what they do all day. Sales Operations is constantly understaffed and stuck under inefficient manual processes that keep them constantly behind on their caseload while basic pieces of our Salesforce instance fail to work properly. Sales Enablement is either spending their time running trainings that are either totally redundant or of little value, or they are doing seemingly nothing at all. We went more than 9 months as a team without a single training run by Enablement until they were finally able to scrape together enough budget to bring in an outside sales trainer for 1 day. Meanwhile, the company is struggling to maintain sales volume and seems to have no answer to this problem. Most managers are still running 1 on 1 meetings with their direct reports that have little substance. Very little is going on in terms of coaching and development, just a lot of people relying on the same old strategies that no longer work. As a result, a lot of their best employees have left the company for greener pastures.

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Glassdoor Response
6y
We continuously seek to improve and make positive changes including changes based on employee feedback. That said, we can always do better and my door is always open if you want to share more with me. Wishing you the very best with your future career.
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