A GOOD company on its way to being GREAT - Principal Architect ZoomInfo Employee Review

4.0
Dec 29, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive compensation, the opportunity to learn a lot of new technologies, and plenty of integrations to develop among the acquired companies.

Cons

ZoomInfo tends to focus on the tactical at the expense of the strategic - the "urgent" at the expense of the "important". And a lot of work is integrating with different teams, typically from different acquired companies, and this can lead to a lot of CYA and finger pointing where it doesn't always feel like we're all on the same team.

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5.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Strong career growth for high performers, Great Pay and Benefits, Flexibility and supportive peers, Top Tier software and data tools!!

Cons

Hyper competitive and sometimes feels draining but everyone pushes for win which is great.

1.0
Jul 9, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people. My peers in marketing are experienced, fun, and whip-smart. Colleagues, even those long gone, have continued to be supportive of one another in ways I've not seen at other companies. The networking is amazing. Although it may also be trauma bonding.

Cons

Marketing is always the scapegoat here and will always get hit hard when there are layoffs. In early summer 2025 they laid off nearly the entire product marketing team - from 26 people to 2- and "replaced" them with AI. Morale never recovered, the messaging has never been clearly communicated since then, and the worst part is CEO Henry Schuck went on a podcast to brag about it. Talk about out of touch. In the entire time I worked there, marketing leadership was sorely lacking. There has never been clear direction. This is still a problem with the new CMO, who is both heavily involved at a micro level and yet opaque about important things the whole department should know. And now the constant trimmings... Er, layoffs... no -- "exits" -- have gotten even more extreme. We're just wholesale replacing standard, strategic marketing positions and even teams with agencies. Which is quite a look for a billion dollar company. It might be worth it to work here for 6 months or a year if you can manage for the experience and connections, but the constant strategic switch-ups and looming inevitability of layoffs will wear you down. And soon you'll be looking for an escape route so you can say "you can't lay me off, I quit."

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