Good people, terrible leadership - Anonymous employee PagerDuty Employee Review

3.0
Oct 4, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great teams, good benefits, decent pay

Cons

Leadership remains innately tone deaf, and from the top down it’s clear that we are all seen as cogs in the machine that are punished when we don’t meet expectations regardless of the variables. I understand it is all of our jobs to help sell the PagerDuty product, yet teams are expected to work and work like PagerDuty is their only purpose in life.

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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We encourage you to discuss this feedback with your direct manager and/or HRBP. We strive to provide employees with the tools necessary to maintain work/life integration. This includes a generous PTO program, career development opportunities, and ample volunteer time off that enables employees to get involved in their communities and with causes they care about. Our leadership team and managers are committed to providing the support that every employee needs to feel empowered in their work and careers here at PagerDuty. Thank you again for your insight. It helps us make PagerDuty a better company for all employees!

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Cons

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