Zero Work-Life Balance - Marketing Manager Freshworks Employee Review

2.0
Oct 11, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is competitive and catered lunches are decent.

Cons

I have been employed here for a year and a half and had such great hopes at the beginning to work at this company because I had heard great things about the leadership. Over the past several months there has been almost a complete turnover of leadership at the top. These new leaders have no empathy for their employees and expect them to work insane hours. Most employees are based in India, so calls start at 6:00 am and often times end at 10:00 pm. Moral is incredibly low and it is quite sad because there are some very talented people working here. Most everyone is biding their time until the economy and job market improves (including myself). Freshworks pay is very competitive, but benefits are just mediocre and the stock has done abysmal. I have very little respect for, or confidence in the top executives to turn around this sinking ship.

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5.0
Mar 17, 2026
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Pros

Good culture to work here,

Cons

Location is quite far, travel is tedious

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Freshworks Response
3mo
Thanks for the review--we think it's pretty fun here too! Best of luck on what's next.
2.0
May 14, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Mostly good salary/benefits - Nice office - Some decent coworkers

Cons

If you have to do mass layoffs of hundreds of employees every 18 months, leaders need to look in the mirror to find the true problem with the business. Because it's not the competent people that actually get things done that are being laid off with no warning and limited severance. Don't expect any job security here. Also: - Still behind on certain benefits (extremely limited 401k match and bad expense policies not in line with US standards) - Work life balance is hard with large teams in both India and the US - Some employees who have been here 10+ years are completely unresponsive and largely incompetent but still get raises, promotions, and aren't ever scrutinized by leadership. The politics game runs deep here.

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