Navan reviews

There's been a lot of changes since I first started. What began as a fun, caring, and great culture quickly turned into an environment of fear and unachievable goals mainly due to TAs hyper growth. To be clear, a lot of the issues started well before COVID. Once COVID broke out, we began to see the real colors of our leadership team as they became more and more desperate. All the values they preached of was literally thrown out the window. Most of the negative reviews are accurate and play along the same themes: - Layoffs: Yes, there was a huge round of layoffs where we lost a lot of great people. However, before that, people were constantly placed on PIPs with no real direction of why and unrealistic goals. Because of this, we saw high turn overs. Once our new CRO joined, we did away with PIPs and people were let go without any warning in mass. People were even let go while they were still ramping... - Favoritism: This runs true here. A degree of this is common in all companies - however, I would say it's much worse here. It seems that a lot of the early employees have moved up the ladder without any real leadership experience. This creates a blind leading the blind environment. There's never an equal opportunity to interview to move up as these decisions are made behind closed doors. - Work Life balance: is non existent. You're expected to work through the evenings and on weekends. We used to have a perk that was a recharge day every month, however, it was frowned upon when you actually took it. Our CRO and managers suggests that we work on the weekends to start planning for our pipe generation efforts. TripActions is not a SaaS tool. Be prepared to be a desperate sales person and give it away for free. If the customer doesn't launch, your commission is clawed back. Unrealistic goals are set my managers and AEs are constantly pressured to sell the platform, while our customers are dealing with a pandemic and travel ban. Things have been going down hill for a while and now with the current travel climate, things will only get worse. Run far far away from TA.

Where to begin? If you are in sales stay far away. This is not a SaaS company as much as their recruiters will try and tell you it is. The platform is great, but you’re a glorified travel agent and will not make any money here. Things really took a turn for the worst when they hired a new chief revenue officer (the old one who was excellent was demoted - even though he had grown the company by 5,000%): this is a case study in how micro management, firing sales reps with no notice, and having a commission structure that is not even remotely catered towards allowing your reps to hit their OTE can cause discontent and attrition. This ship was sinking even before the COVID-19 pandemic allowed the C Suite to have an excuse to lay off 40% of the company - including the entire Chicago office and employees who uprooted their lives to move from California to Illinois. Having a great product and offering your employees some stock options can only compensate for horrific management for so long.