Limited Product-Market Fit and Navigating Rough Growing Pains - Enterprise Account Executive Airtable Employee Review

1.0
Jul 17, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Competitive Salary and Good Benefits - Intelligent, hard working and awesome IC/coworkers - Supportive first line managers and have AE's backs to have success - Flexible work structure, giving employees the option to go into the office/s to collaborate the team while being remote - Product has potential

Cons

- Lack of clear strategic company vision - Limited product market fit: the company's vision to be "everything to anyone" is not helpful for customers and prospects... the horizontal nature of the product has reached headwinds with the macro-economic environment and directly impacts competitiveness - The sales org is very poorly run and there are changes done all the time, which makes it difficult to be successful. There is also very little communication about changes and many disruptive changes to territory. There is little to no engagement with sales reps - Terrible BDR management and process. There is no synergy between AEs and BDRs, and current structure makes it difficult for AEs and BDRs to strategically partner together and make an impact together - Weak focus on the Enterprise market: the business has moved from a PLG motion to a full SLG motion w/o proper training or demand from the market and no structure. This all shows lack of product maturity - Market understanding from AEs on the ground "selling" and Sales leaders are at opposite ends - no competitive understanding of the market from leaders and is a dis-service to the Sales team -Unrealistic expectations because no clue about the product or the market - Disconnected and very weak culture: almost no one goes into the offices, everyone is siloed based on what teams they are on and everything feels forced and fake

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5.0
Feb 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Office culture is amazing - dedicated "culture ambassadors" (a recruiter and engineer) plan events in the NYC office , and they're doing an amazing job, not to mention daily interactions and lunches with a strong in-office presence. Coworkers on my team are incredibly smart, kind, and thoughtful. In my experience, there is a total absence of known smart but "difficult" people, which is unheard of. Really interesting, technically deep projects, since we are fundamentally a data company. Perks and benefits are great. One of the rare tech companies that still seems to have all the right values regarding DEI, work life balance, and keeping its employees happy.

Cons

Not sure what the outlook is on the future of AI - we're certainly at a major inflection point with a new CTO and a lot of AI initiatives, and it remains to be seen how it goes. Quality of managers seems to be mixed. High management turnover, but that's the industry right now.

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4.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- great flexible product, heavily dogfooded - generally nice and smart coworkers - all my EMs have been great - comp and benefits are good

Cons

- codebase is pretty heavyweight, a large monorepo - distributed and remote-friendly company means you don't get much face time with many of your coworkers - recent wave of departures and re-orgs has been a bit chaotic

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