CEO Forced Reviews - Anonymous employee KnowBe4 Employee Review

1.0
May 27, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Open PTO, which is capped at 30 days. Nice benefit but don’t believe the reviews that it’s unlimited - Benefits are good - Great co-workers and some directors - Remote/Hybrid (for now)

Cons

- New CEO told us that social media is part of our job which includes leaving a 5 star review on Glassdoor. That’s why you see so many 5 star reviews over the past week - Salary is NOT on par with the industry no matter what they try and say, I see so many jobs with higher starting salary than most everyone here makes - Commission structure has only gotten worse with 0 exceptions for out of business or acquired companies leaving many making little to no money each month due to things beyond our control - Bonus game is a joke now, they set unrealistic goals so the best we do is half that of what we were getting in years past. They act like the opportunity is still there but we haven’t hit the top level in 2 years despite the company saying we are doing great - Competitors are starting to crush us because we have done nothing but raise prices and make every new feature an add on product - Instead of coming up with real solutions they just blame us for not showing the customer the “value” of their overpriced product - They will dispute this in their response but a large chunk of employees have left

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Hood staff be kind nice

Cons

Poor pay insurance bad hard work

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1.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great office snacks, free ev charging, cool coworkers

Cons

Out of about 100 AE's only 10 hit Quota, OTE is a joke there. It's possible to hit quota if you are lucky with your inbound leads, but if you want to hit quota every month you have to do something moreso out of the box. I was trained by hard closers and have a lot of expierence with cold calls so i came up with my own script and was getting a demo a day, and was doing a demo a day. The demos did lead to sales as well, so it wasn't a waste of time. I got fired because of a "lack of professionalism" I spoke off script all the time because speaking on script leads you in to the Kool-aid drinkers club, aka not hitting quota consistently. I was fired without warning, even though I was told I had an incredible work ethic and was exceeding the ramp-up numbers. I just didnt match their sales style, they are not looking for salespeople, they are looking for sales associates. They make you work 9-hour days, 1 hour mandatory lunch that has to be taken in the middle of the day. 9-6pm. Their handbook even says you are allowed to take this lunch at 5 pm to go home sooner, but the managers never let that happen. DO NOT BE CREATIVE AT THIS JOB, DRINK THE JUICE.

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