Emerging Tech Startup in Silicon Valley - Sales Development Representative OpenGov Employee Review

5.0
Jan 2, 2019
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Pros

I have worked at OpenGov as a Sales Development Representative for almost six months and I've loved my time here so far. My previous position was with a corporate staffing firm where, aside from a standard 401k and health benefits plan, the employee benefits were coffee and water available in our small kitchen. OpenGov has exceeded all of my expectations as far as being a supportive workplace where management genuinely cares about your career aspirations, individual performance and achievement, professional development, and a fully-loaded kitchen area! I view OpenGov as a place where there's great opportunity with a government tech company with a highly specialized and competitive product that works in the local government space.

Cons

Since OpenGov is a startup company, there is some influx of organizational changes.

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5.0
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Pros

You get to work on bleeding edge technologies, and serve your nations public institutions.

Cons

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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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