Great People but Questionable Leadership - Business Development Representative (BDR) Filevine Employee Review

2.0
Jan 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people I met in the Chicago office were amazing and everyone was great to work with. All immediate colleagues and managers are there to help you and fight with you. Truly some of the best people I’ve met

Cons

Upper management created almost every problem I or anyone I worked with ran into. You’re always pushed to do more and more but it’s never enough. Made quota within too weeks, great job but it’s still not enough. 5 day in person really gets frustrating when you’re succeeding cause there’s no real reason to push harder. Quota is way too high unless you set yourself up for next month or snipe other peoples meetings. You will get meetings stolen from you based on arbitrary rules that change daily. And everyone tries to steal meetings because of the arbitrary rules and nobody ever getting punished for it. There are clear favorites as well Also growth within the company seems horrid. While you are able to grow fairly quickly. There are some weird rules they don’t tell you about promotion and your problems really only seem to grow with promotion.

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Filevine Response
6mo
Thank you for your review and transparent feedback about your experience working on our BDR team in Chicago. We would agree, Fileviners are the best of the best and we appreciate their efforts! We also recognize your feedback for improvement and will be sure to escalate this to the necessary teams in order to implement the appropriate changes. Thank you!

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