Is Motive a good company to work for?

Motive has an overall rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on over 1,670 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 72% of employees would recommend working at Motive to a friend and 74% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Motive have been left by employees working as Sales Development Representative , Software Engineer and Recruiter .

Does Motive pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Motive employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Motive. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Motive?

72% of Motive employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Motive 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Motive?

Account Executive (273) , Software Engineer (67) , Technical Support Specialist (49) , Sales Development Representative (SDR) (38) , Senior Account Executive (34) , Technical Support Engineer (26) , Sales Manager (21) , Account Manager (20) , Customer Success Manager (19) , Sales (18) , Sales Development Representative (17) , Senior Software Engineer (16) , Recruiter (15) , Enterprise Account Executive (14) , Product Manager (12)

What are the pros of working at Motive according to real employee reviews?

"Great people and product in a good industry" ((in 85 reviews)); "Productive and Good pay" ((in 73 reviews)); "They provide good benefits." ((in 64 reviews)); "Good salary paid on time with Rs. 1 lakh per year OPD benefit" ((in 60 reviews)); "Good work life balance for a person with family" ((in 58 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Motive according to real employee reviews?

"No job security in sales and development department." ((in 49 reviews)); "poor managers who are often firing people who are preforming well for no reason" ((in 22 reviews)); "Too much favoritism and bias, no merit in hiring." ((in 12 reviews)); "Upper management does know what they are doing, and CEO doesn't care about his employees." ((in 10 reviews)); "I also worry about diversity" ((in 4 reviews))

What are employees saying about Motive layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Motive layoffs and their outlook for job security at Motive in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Motive locations?

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Motive reviews

4.0

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,589 total reviews)

Shoaib Makani

83% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

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Motive has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,589 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

Jul 8, 2020

Management decisions keep me very worried

Account executive

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CEO approval

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Pros

Free Snacks and lunches, unlimited days off.

Cons

Management it seems is very lost and has no idea what they are doing. Make poor decisions that keep giving the company a bad name and make it extremely difficult to attain sales. Moving support to people in Pakistan has really hurt us as a company .

1.0

Apr 11, 2020

Flawed leadership

Anonymous employee

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CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of talented and smart coworkers (though most of the good ones are gone now). Good food, fancy office, monthly happy hours (not sure how many of those benefits will exist going forward).

Cons

Plenty of cons that all point back to dysfunctional leadership. Leadership strategy has been a complete disaster, directly or indirectly contributing to two massive rounds of layoffs. Leadership fails to make effective decisions based on data or the knowledge of subject matter experts, and then doesn't hold itself accountable for poor decisions. Leadership's inability to focus or to be decisive leads to conflicts of interest or other issues that grind progress to a halt for the people actually executing on KT's vision. This inefficiency is worsened by organizational complexities and dysfunction, such as unnecessarily complicated and vertical management hierarchy. Compensation is no longer competitive when you account for reneged bonuses.

1.0

Apr 10, 2020

stay away

Sales representative

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CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Lunch catered every day amazing people

Cons

Upper management does know what they are doing, and CEO doesn't care about his employees.

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