Ignore 5-Star Reviews - Anonymous employee ClickUp Employee Review

1.0
Jan 17, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Office was stocked with snacks and drinks, lunch provided once a week. - Still a somewhat small company, so there’s opportunity for growth if you're willing to center your life around the job and company. - You'll learn a lot because you'll have to.

Cons

- ZERO work-life balance, this place is a sweatshop. Forget about family, friends, or free time if you work here. - Frequent 14-16 hour days, 6-7 days a week. - Bare minimum benefits and PTO. - Expectation to work and respond to Slack messages, emails, and tasks even while out sick or on vacation. - High turnover due to burnout, unrealistic workloads, and generally poor organizational leadership. - Unorganized and impulsive environment that's often counterproductive and frustrating to work in. - Take the other 1-3 star reviews seriously, they're not exaggerating.

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ClickUp Response
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We're very appreciative of your feedback and it's disappointing to know your experience was not reflective of what we are building here at ClickUp. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our employee experience. For example, we now offer a flexible PTO program, a very competitive (and recently revamped) benefits package, and 401(k) options. We appreciate all that you have accomplished at ClickUp, and wish you the best on your next professional journey!

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 18, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some smart, ambitious people who you can learn a lot from.

Cons

This place is an unstable, toxic mess, and leadership is largely to blame. The C-suite is full of egos and seems to make goals and quotas up out of thin air, then cleans up the fallout from poor planning and overhiring with layoffs. There have been three company-wide mass layoffs in less than four years, and that doesn’t even include the many layoffs that have happened quietly behind closed doors. The toxicity at the top trickles down through the entire organization. VPs put pressure on middle management, who then pass that pressure on to ICs. The company can’t seem to keep leaders in place for more than six months, which creates constant chaos and confusion. Strategies are always changing, priorities shift every few months, and nothing ever sticks long enough to make a real impact. Promotions seem to be based more on politics, favoritism, and who can make the most noise than on actual performance. The same people get promoted year after year, and many of them seem underqualified for the titles they hold. If you’re good at self-promotion and have the right relationships, you’ll probably do fine. If you’re quietly doing great work, don’t expect the same recognition. HR keeps saying they’re working on improving the promotion process, but I haven’t seen much change. If you’re considering joining the GTM org (especially the operational side) I would think twice. The new leadership loves to talk about transformation, improvements, and exciting changes, but there’s usually very little follow through behind the messaging.

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