Motive reviews

4.0

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,586 total reviews)
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Shoaib Makani

83% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Motive has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,586 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Motive employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Dec 12, 2022

Truthful Review - employee experience is the lowest priority

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The pay is very competitive and full time remote is great.

Cons

If you are wondering why glassdoor has decent reviews. It’s because most of the workforce are in Pakistan and are encouraged to write good reviews. If you don’t believe the bad reviews I encourage you to find former employees and for honest thoughts. My experience is that the company decisions are made prematurely and the workhorses get blamed if the outcome isn’t ideal. Decision makers don’t look at themselves and accept they are responsible for setting a path to succeed. Another review called it “masculine” and I would agree in the worst way. I have worked at other bad places but motive takes the cake. Because of my experience I kept in touch with former colleagues and discovered their layoff not-surprisingly didn’t include any of the “talkers” within the company that only spoke a good game and never produced. Every toxic behavior is excused as due to a hyper growth mode. I've worked at startups most of my career and this type of behavior is not due to a priority on growth. The problem here is leadership has 1 priority and that is revenue. The leadership does not understand that a positive work environment will aid in driving revenue. Instead they look at employees as hardware upgrades. If you somehow end up at Motive and feel things are fishy and want to “give it a chance”. Do NOT stay and start looking elsewhere.

1.0
May 8, 2020
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Pros

Great technology given at on-boarding for desk set-up.

Cons

Anyone that is not a cis-het male has little to no opportunity to contribute strategy at the higher level. This reality is compounded if that strategy is dissenting, counter-normative, or innovative in any way. KT relies heavily on observing competitor decision-making and duplicating those efforts. KT chooses not to study customer insights or conduct user research. This has not proven to be successful.

2.0
Apr 8, 2020

Business is not a poker tournament

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great office and food. Great learning opportunity. Co-workers are awesome.

Cons

Erratic management. Over-ambitious goals. Poor cash management and financial planning

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