Look Elsewhere, This Place Lost What Made it Great - Customer Success Manager PagerDuty Employee Review

2.0
Mar 1, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Wellness Days (1 company-wide day off a month) - Hibernation Duty (week off in July, and another week off near Christmas) - PD.org team really cares about community involvement and bettering the world - Used to be the CEO but she’s been MIA the last 6 months

Cons

PagerDuty used to be a great place to work until new leadership came and took over customer-facing teams (sales, success, etc). New leadership promised all CSMs leveling meetings, but ended up firing over 6 CSMs without even meeting with them or getting to know them, some of which were top performers and loved by their customers. Since that leadership came in, attrition rates are through the roof, ENT Success has seen over 200% attrition in a year, with most people only lasting 6 months. These teams have tried to share what is wrong with the department and exec leadership chalks it up to being "bad-culture fits." Metrics in customer success are only looked at from a team-level. Because they never look at individual performance metrics, the people who are the loudest and brag about themselves (even if they don't perform well), get promotions and opportunities handed to them. PagerDuty's Customer Success org has a lot of questionable inequities, particularly related to gender. Women are brought in at lower titles & pay despite having more experience and outperforming their male counterparts. Overall, Customer Success is horribly mismanaged and I would not work for that department.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 9, 2026
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Pros

they have existing customers, most are churning

Cons

Leadership is incompetent and micro manages. Full of middle management that doesn't help move the needle just tries to cover up their poor performance by blaming others. Poor culture, no one seems to enjoy working there and most are on their way out whether by choice or constant layoffs

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