Work on tough problems with smart people - Anonymous employee OpenGov Employee Review

5.0
Aug 30, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people. You get to work with smart, passionate, and humble people across every department. We've brought in top senior leadership from successful companies (i.e. Salesforce, Box, IBM, Zuora). The vision. The entire company rallies behind transforming how governments allocate public money to achieve the right outcomes for their citizens. The impact. You can feel the benefit of your work as you talk with local governments across the nation. Hearing about the benefit our technology has on their day-to-day operations is intoxicating. It also helps that the perks are fantastic :-)

Cons

As the company has grown there have been growing pains. Things have been a little chaotic at times but we're getting our feet underneath us through the help of recent hires.

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1.0
May 21, 2026
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Pros

The startup-era culture here was genuinely good — collaborative, energetic, people-first. As the company grew, so did the ego. Leadership lost what made the place work and replaced it with a top-down, my-way culture that has driven out some of the best people.

Cons

I'm writing the review I wish had existed when I was researching this company. Not checking Glassdoor before I started was my single biggest professional regret. Promotion is positioned during recruiting as a near-term, achievable goal. In reality, the criteria are vague, inconsistently applied, and rarely result in actual advancement. KPIs are set at levels that ensure most reps will fall short — creating a perpetual sense of failure that serves management's pressure tactics, not your career growth. Advancement often appears less tied to clear performance metrics and more dependent on subjective favoritism, including maintaining close alignment with or “sucking up to” hiring managers and leadership, rather than merit alone. Transparency is essentially nonexistent. Turnover in the SDR org specifically is high and ongoing, but it’s never acknowledged or addressed internally. Candidates have no way of knowing the full picture going in. One more thing worth knowing: account executives are coached during training to post positive Glassdoor reviews. Please weigh that when you look at the overall rating. “Unlimited PTO” is also not as flexible as it may be presented. In practice, time off appears to be closely monitored and can be restricted, even for high performers, based on internal perceptions of fairness across the team rather than true flexibility or performance-based trust. This makes the benefit feel more like a recruiting talking point than an actual employee perk.

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