The ultimate measure of leadership in these challenging times speaks for itself - Anonymous employee PagerDuty Employee Review

2.0
May 9, 2023
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A really good culture that has the best diversity of anywhere I have worked. A product that current customers love and champion. Track record of promoting from within if you manage to perform well. Clear emphasis on hiring good people. Leadership leaves you alone to do your job and work flexible hours. Benefits in line with or better than what most good tech companies offer.

Cons

Once you look past the few positives PagerDuty is just like any other tech company, only with far worse training, direction and organizational structure. An understaffed enablement team were working to overhaul the process but onboarding and training routinely fell to existing employees who didn't have enough time to properly guide new hires. Also nobody goes into the office anymore so team collaboration only happens via the occasional Zoom and Slack chat. If you are not incredibly self reliant you are destined to fail here. The whole place reeks of a company that had an easy time growing but now that the space has gotten competitive they are a bit lost. New wins are small and rely on former users championing PagerDuty heavily. Despite a rabid fanbase and strong success stories, marketing fails to do anything other than run coordinated bribe campaigns that rely on giveaways to drive engagement and buy ad space next to personal injury lawyers on rotating city signage. The only good thing is they promote from within, as long as you are good at faking your numbers and are paired with the right sales team who will give it their rubber stamp of approval to let you ride their coattails. Otherwise you can expect leadership to act very interested in your feedback. Then do nothing other than quote MLK about the measure of a leader in challenging times while sacrificing nothing and laying off 7% of the workforce after their inaction led to poor performance.

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5.0
May 14, 2026
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Pros

It was a wonderful company when I joined back in 2017. Truly the best place I've ever worked for in my 10+ years in sales. People were helpful, intelligent, humble (including almost all execs), and driven. Benefits were fantastic as well, and pay was just under industry average but lots of room to make a lot more than OTE due to uncapped commissions. Execs were willing to join customer meetings even with smaller accounts, thinking strategically, not transactionally. I enjoyed my 4 years there, and while this review is extremely overdue, it was my experience and I'd go back there in a heartbeat if I were still doing sales.

Cons

Some things have changed since I left, but there are still many people remaining at the company for over 5-8 years and tell me things are still better than some other tech companies their spouses or friends work. PD tightened up spend to get to profitability, which resulted in some layoffs over the last couple years as well. Now with the departure of Jenn Tejada and new CEO coming onboard, it's going to be interesting to see where he'll take the company moving forward.

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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