The good days are long gone - Software Engineer Podium Employee Review

1.0
Aug 10, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Unlimited PTO (if you're not in sales) Huge focus on DEI (if you're into that kind of thing)

Cons

A lot of decisions that were made within the last 2 years had negative outcomes. This started when they hired a big name exec who helped push some new initiatives and changed our sales structure. After a few months, the exec was fired, but his name is still brought up to this day as a scapegoat. A few years ago, we never missed sales quota. It wasn't in our DNA. With that said, I can't recall the last time we actually hit our monthly sales quota. They laid off 12% of the company in December 2022, just before Christmas. At that time, they also announced they were removing our 401k match, the weekly Wednesday lunches, the weekly smoothies, our golf pass at Fox Hollow, an indoor golf simulator (that was purchased less than 1 year ago), and more. 1 month ago, they announced that the CEO wants all local employees within a 50 miles radius to come into the office Tuesday-Thursday starting August 15th. From what I gathered, the majority of local employees were not happy about this. We even had a Q&A with some execs where questions were asked about this, and received mostly canned responses and they deferred blame to the CEO. There was no data to back up why we had to go into the office, and it was admitted that us being remote for the past 3 years was effective, but they still would not give exemptions for people who did not want to or were unable to come in. After multiple town hall meetings over the last few months where the CEO was boasting about how good our numbers looked since the last layoffs and how our goal is to not have any other layoffs, we were all surprised when 23% of the company was once again laid off on Wednesday August 9th. I've heard that they also announced that the 401k match was back during the town hall meeting the following day. As someone who was at Podium during its "rocket ship" stage, I believe that those days are long gone.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Great coworkers, lower-middle management, product, PTO “unlimited” which isn’t true but does allow flexible usage, generous 2 days off for many holidays, and catered food ~3 times a month, regularly stocked fridge with energy drinks, soda, and water.

Cons

Top down leadership disconnected from sales and customer success team. Little coordinated efforts between nearly every department. Overhauled the pay structure Jan 2026, getting rid of the performance based promotion and pay scaling. Preventing OM’s from making the advertised 77k leading to many of us now stuck at 60k or 66k w/ a horrible annualized raise schedule (high performers not getting raises left waiting for potential raises that likely won’t come this year). Nearly nonexistent HR that is hard to get in communication with.

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