PitchBook reviews

I was on comparatively smaller team (Product), so my experience is not necessarily indicative of the majority of roles within PitchBook (i.e. sales, research, account management, etc.), but I feel confident about the following: PitchBook is a great place for young professionals. Working here will give you exposure to just about every side of the SaaS B2B industry. People get promoted quickly and fairly, and more recently they’ve put in place established career paths for Sales, Research and Account Management. Furthermore, PitchBook gives employees ample opportunity to move departments according to their interests. All of this amounts to being an incredibly useful experience for people who are fresh in their career and want exposure to a variety job functions. It’s like boot camp for your career; you’re going to learn a ton and feel very well equipped on your path. PitchBook is what you make it––literally. Along with the internal mobility, employees have the opportunity to create their own roles. There were numerous instances of employees encountering roadblocks/suboptimal processes, proposing solutions and essentially getting hired to execute on that proposal. PitchBook has great people. Everyone is very nice and open; PitchBook has a very team-oriented and collegially competitive atmosphere. People work very hard, but you’ll also have many happy hours and company/team events. Some of the smartest and most capable people I know I met at PitchBook, and I’m confident that it’s a breeding ground for strong future talent. As a designer, I appreciated the opportunity to work on an extremely complex platform. From a user interface and visual design perspective, my time at PitchBook provided many opportunities for tackling design challenges such as organizing an immense amount of data, creating a usable interface and navigational structure, designing useful rather than "just pretty" data visualizations, and the constant tug of war between what functionality to show vs. what to hide (discoverability). As a disclaimer, everyone should know that succeeding at PitchBook requires having an interest in learning about the Private Equity, Venture Capital and M&A space. PitchBook is an extremely sophisticated product in an extremely complex niche. It's impossible to do your job well without understanding the unique needs of this space and the people that operate within it. Luckily, PitchBook has one of the finest employee training/knowledge development programs I've ever encountered. It's a rarity to find such a well-developed program in a tech company of its size/age.

1. Culture & Environment - Very young, fun organization with a lot of enthusiasm. A lot of talk about the fun culture with Mariners games, beer Fridays and food at company quarterly meetings, and holiday events. The reality is these employee morale events are the bare bones at other companies. The company tries to sell itself as still having a startup type of environment, but it is far beyond the size and age of any normal startup. Company employees primarily are fresh recruits directly out of undergrad seeking their first role in sales and/or marketing. They start with very low pay and if successful on the inside sales team, then progress to the outside sales, marketing or research teams. Long term, most employees don't stick around as the opportunities aren't very exciting - while you can get promoted to new roles, you either continue to do tedious, super detailed research on companies or you continue to do sales and asked to push your quota further and further each year. Very high pressure on increasing sales at an unrealistic rate. Unless your long term goal is to work as a senior analyst with a financial services or brokerage firm, think twice about the career path options. 2. Middle Management Team - All of the team managers, directors and senior/managing directors are really cool, young employees who started or have most of their careers with the company. They know the company, the business and the industry and are sharp guys. That said, they are young for their levels and do lack management maturity that you would see in companies that focus on leadership development. Additionally, because their experience is limited in working at other companies as leaders, there is little diversity in their leadership qualities as they only know how to see things from the PitchBook perspective. This isn't their fault. Most of this stems from poor leadership coaching of the founder who lacks as effective teacher.