Down hill since 2022 - Director OpenGov Employee Review

1.0
May 16, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- strong brand and presence in the government software market. - impactful mission-oriented vision - known to be a great place to work hard in a team environment, get great career experiences, and develop your skills (but that has really changed since Matson and former President left the company)

Cons

Poor culture that has significantly declined in the last 2 years when inexperienced Founder/CEO stepped back in to operating the business and hired a head of GTM that was well under qualified for the position. I am not sure exactly what transpired among the prior executive leadership team & CEO causing them to walk from OG, but since the end of 2021 it’s been a completely different company than the OpenGov that was highly regarded by customers & employees, and growing due to strong references in the market. The amount of unjustified disparagement and top-down pressure to disengage with anyone who was previously a successful employee or leader at the company (unless fired) has been completely inappropriate—leading to many departures of key contributors in the last 18-24 months. Many of these folks were customers turned employees and leaders who played a pivotal role in driving the company to their recent exit of $1.8 Billion. Anyone that was in the company from 2019 to 2022 when things were firing on all cylinders knows this, and anyone that is there currently from the old regime (if their being honest) will tell you they are fearful for their jobs and to be punished for even liking a LinkedIn post by someone on current management’s “black list”. It’s bad!

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
May 21, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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