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Greenhouse Software

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Grow at Greenhouse? What a joke. - Anonymous employee Greenhouse Software Employee Review

2.0
Mar 9, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. Amazing Product. Greenhouse is truly the best recruitment platform in the market even though innovation has slowed recently. 2. The people are the companies best asset. 3. Comp is stellar.

Cons

1. No room for growth, work there for the resume boost and then leave for a better opportunity. 2. Chaos within the sales organization. (mass layoffs and lots of turnover) 3. Recently promoted VPs lack experience necessary to be successful in their new roles.

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Greenhouse Software Response
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Well, let’s get the easy stuff out of the way first. Thanks for the compliments! I agree our products and people are the best! And we take great care to pay people fairly so I’m glad you see that working well too. Now to the harder stuff. I can’t respond to each of your “con” points here as they involve quite a bit of detail, some of it non-public, but I’m happy to chat further about them if you’d like, Stop by my desk! To your point about career growth I’ll say this: I’m glad you’re ambitious; we try to hire great people and ambitious people always need continual career growth. Of course some people’s career ambitions fit within what we can provide as a company while others’ sometimes cannot. If that’s you, by all means you owe it to yourself to pursue the best path for yourself. I don’t begrudge anyone leaving for better opportunities if we can’t provide them. Having said that, we promoted 27% of people in the past 6 months and continually look for ways to provide more growth opportunities. I’m sorry if that hasn’t helped you - please let your manager, the People team, or myself know. I absolutely promise that your concerns will be taken seriously and we will work on it together with you. It’s not a joke at all to me. I wish you were having a more positive experience here. It’s not too late! Come find me, your manager, or someone on the People team and let’s see if we can improve things from here. - Daniel

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Pros

The culture is unmatched and the leadership at Greenhouse truly cares about its employees. It’s refreshing to work with a customer base that enjoys our product. I really believe in the direction of the company and the improvements that we’re making to the product. Everyone I work with is awesome and I’m incredibly happy here.

Cons

I think the comp plan needs to be reevaluated. There’s a lot that is out of your control, and it isn’t setup in such a way that you can blow out your numbers and really overachieve your OTE. I think it was setup for a time when the company was a lot smaller, and the AMs had very large books of business. My only real gripe with Greenhouse is that we are paid commission quarterly instead of monthly, but I enjoy the company so much that I can overlook it.

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Pros

Great fringe benefits and good at hiring kind, helpful individuals

Cons

1. Culture changed very significantly during my time there, becoming more cutthroat and less aligned with why I joined in the first place. In a way, I felt pushed out and like I had to leave as a result. 2. Macroeconomic and industry shifts resulted in job instability and cycling layoffs as mentioned in other reviews. 3. Some senior leaders started as entry-level employees, and while that career growth is nice to see, not only does it no longer feel possible at Greenhouse, but that those same employees are increasingly ill-equipped to navigate the challenges that the business is experiencing given their lack of exposure. This was especially clear to me in CS and Product. At the same time, turnover at lower levels was very high during my time there, even with great employees, but never much acknowledgment of it. 4. Product is falling behind Ashby and other competitors.

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