Granicus reviews

2.8

38% would recommend to a friend

(493 total reviews)
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Mark Hynes

44% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Granicus has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 493 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Granicus employee rating is 23% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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493 reviews
1.0
Mar 25, 2025
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Pros

-wfh reimbursement -remote -not much else

Cons

Where do I even begin. Granicus is a “well-known” Government Software company that truly believes in one thing only, money in the pockets of the C-suite while dismantling the workforce in the US and taking advantage of hard workers in countries like Costa Rica, India, and I’m sure many more in the future. The moment they acquired Simpleview things started going sideways. We were first promised extra staff in Costa Rica, which many were excited for. As a manager I knew what this meant. Though we were constantly being reassured about the large number of employees coming in, which we did not need, they continued to pretend we were safe and that layoffs were not imminent. And this is where the unethical behavior comes in, it started with annual employee reviews. Many managers were told and asked to change and falsify employee scores to be much lower than what was given. Once the HR team approved the new low scores, they then let management know that everyone in the bottom 10 percent would require to be written up. Many of us refused to complete the performance improvement plans because they were all based on false scores. Their plan was to give impossible PIPs to these employees then fire them. And how do we know this? Because the heads of HR are kind enough to keep their calendar appointments very public. They had events like “PIPPAPOOLZA”, “Employee Phase Out”, and “Meeting about Simpleview Problem” on their calendars. How embarrassing that a company who PREACHES about professionalism would be so utterly disrespectful about the lives of the workers they employ. I wish this was the end of it but they also failed to give proper notice of 401k Blackout, provide insurance for dental and vision on time then blamed the provider. But after contacting the provider Granicus failed to give them all the employee information on time. It’s a nightmare and will continue to be. My advice: stay away and get out.

1.0
Mar 14, 2025

Would give zero stars if I could

Anonymous employee
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Pros

There is literally nothing good about this company

Cons

This company does not care about its customers, they do not care about their employees, and they definitely do not care about "diversity" or "inclusion", even though they constantly virtue signal about it. They recently acquired a thriving company with happy employees who worked hard and loved their jobs, but within a month everyone was miserable and it was pretty clear that Granicus couldn't care less. Their integration plans totally screwed up countless client projects and made most of our jobs virtually impossible to do. Now let's talk about the layoffs. Granicus just did huge sweeping layoffs of hard working, passionate people who had been with the acquired company for over 10 years, and replaced them all with Costa Ricans and no plans on how to train them! Some of the people who were fired were the only ones in the company who knew how to do their jobs, so there's nobody to train these people! This will be the end of many high revenue products. And the manner in which they went about doing the layoffs was the coldest, cruelest thing I've ever seen. The employees who are left are angry, traumatized, and thoroughly confused about how anything is going to get done now that everyone's been fired.

2.0
Aug 7, 2019

Intense Workload and Low Pay

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Casual atmosphere - Good team members

Cons

- Higher workload than industry standard - Lower pay than industry standard across all positions - Lack of support from Management - High turnover - Lack of product knowledge and capacity from high turnover

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