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Abysmal acquisition and destruction of a once-great product - Anonymous employee Greenhouse Software Employee Review

1.0
Feb 5, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

They let laid-off employees keep their laptops.

Cons

I joined Greenhouse as a member of Interseller, an outbound sourcing tool GH acquired in late 2021. The acquisition was talked up as a boon to our company; added resources would mean more innovation and a cutting-edge product. Instead, they poached our engineers and marketers, built our core product into their suite, and let us rot. Leadership sorely underestimated the competition in the outbound space as they lapped us with texting, automation, and AI features. Not a single meaningful update was made to our product post-acquisition. “Feature parity is not a way to win a category,” we were told. Neither is not trying. Our small team was decimated by the first round of layoffs in 2023. These layoffs included a pregnant colleague on maternity leave, our longest-tenured sales rep, and another who had been hired two months prior. As our revenue plunged, the writing was on the wall. I was part of the second round of layoffs two weeks into the new year. It was awesome to see the CPO’s personal brand logo at the bottom of my termination email. Corporations suck.

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Greenhouse Software Response
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Hello and thanks for sharing your feedback. Even if it's difficult to hear, it's valuable and I appreciate you taking the time. I can only imagine how disappointing it must feel to pour your heart and soul into a startup only to see it become a small part of a larger org and not get the same level of passion and investment that you would have hoped. For what it's worth, the technology and talent that has come into Greenhouse via that acquisition has made (and continues to make) a major impact and for that I am very thankful. GHSA is an awesome product (I used it today in fact!) and we continue to invest in it. Despite that, I'm of course sad to hear that your experience was so negative with this acquisition and wish you well,

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Great fringe benefits and good at hiring kind, helpful individuals

Cons

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