Fast growing company, some growing pains, huge opportunity - Anonymous employee ClickUp Employee Review

5.0
Jun 1, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- The company moves fast—This is exactly what some would expect from a startup in an incredibly competitive market. If you're a builder, this is the place for you. - Enthusiasm is infectious—The team is incredibly passionate, excited, and it's rare you get caught in the jaded negativity of some other companies. - Extremely smart and talented team—ClickUp just went on a hiring push and brought in a ton of experience from the outside. - Stock options and 401k matching, as well as 100% of health insurance covered. - Even though its remote-first, the office is amazing. They also take care of remote workers with WeWork passes for those who want it.

Cons

Mostly internal growing pains—the company went from 200-800 in a year, so it's mostly figuring out how all the new departments and groups will work together. Process and frameworks don't really exist but are currently being built. Pretty classic building the engine while you're flying the plane situation.

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
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Pros

Lots of opportunity to affect change. Solid product.

Cons

Typical industry problems, no unique cons.

2.0
Jun 18, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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