Great product, Toxic culture - Account Executive Confluent Employee Review

2.0
Jan 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Product is fantastic, with a great product market fit. Product leadership and engineering are going in the right direction in terms of evolving the product and offer to meet customer needs.

Cons

Toxic culture, lack of trust between teams and lack of accountability for processes and performance within the sales organization. Lots of ex-Oracle people who brought their culture over. Morale is poor across different teams, a lot of it due to the problems above. Many feel like they are walking on eggshells most of the time and anybody who tries to suggest improvements are typically singled out, while being told the opposite(invite innovation and creativity, but then punish non-conformity and going against status quo). Typical of many scaleups, you have managers who lack training and support to transition from individual contributors to people managers which contributes to those issues. It seems sr. leadership recognized this and are implementing manager training programs.

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5.0
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Eng heavy culture Great benefits

Cons

IBM acquisition could change culture

4.0
Jun 10, 2026
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Pros

Great product, strong leadership, and talented people across the organization. Excellent place to learn enterprise SaaS sales and grow quickly as an SDR. Supportive team culture, good training, and a fast-paced environment with many opportunities to work with large global accounts. Strong compensation and career development opportunities for high performers.

Cons

Since the IBM acquisition, there has been uncertainty around the future structure and career path for SDRs. Communication could be more transparent regarding organizational changes, promotion opportunities, and long-term strategy for the SDR organization.

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