Ignore positive reviews / they are fake - Anonymous employee ClickUp Employee Review

1.0
Aug 6, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Not many pros other than office uses to have decent snacks.

Cons

Clickup recently did layoffs and many chief executives are let go due to not hitting company goals. The company is in shambles!!! The product keeps crashing and can’t meet the need of customers. Engineering team is pulled in so many different directions without clear prioritization. There is strong blame shifting culture here because leadership is toxic and won’t accept responsibility for the product being the way it is. I feel sorry for the customers because they are being lied to. The only companies that will benefit from Clickup are the mom and pop shops with few employees. Any company larger than that won’t be able to take advantage of Clickup because the product can’t handle any form of scale. All promised features keep getting delayed as more and more issues get identified.

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5.0
Jun 23, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of opportunity to affect change. Solid product.

Cons

Typical industry problems, no unique cons.

2.0
Jun 18, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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