Navan reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(1,010 total reviews)
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Ariel Cohen

78% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Navan has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,010 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Navan employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
Dec 10, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- catered Lunches every day - unlimited Paid time off - unlimited snacks - travel stipend - genuinely smart/hardworking people

Cons

As a job seeker, its important for you to know the truth. Overall company culture- If you are in the interview process right now, the recruiter is probably selling you on how great the culture is and telling you how we just raised 54mil. But are they telling you that most employees are overworked and, for a lot of departments, underpaid? That instead of addressing this, we spend thousands of dollars on useless marketing events? That there is a culture of fear and intimidation. That if you dare to give feedback or disagree with something, you will have a target on your head? That people are only looking out for themselves and will drag you down to get to the top? Promotions/Raises- Promotions are heavily based off of favoritism. There is no actual criteria for earning a promotion. Working hard will not get you there. Saying the right things to the right people will. Good luck getting a raise because that's apparently not a thing here. You wont even know what you need to do get one. Even if you do get a promotion, most of the time it wont come with a raise. They will expect you to do more work for the same amount of $ and take advantage of you. Based on the other reviews I've seen here, someone from the HR team is going to probably respond to this and say "they are working on this/building this out" but I wouldn't hold my breath. It was acceptable not to have anything when we were a 100 person company but we are at over 800 employees now. Plus, the damage has been done. People who were never adequate enough to lead/manage are eroding morale and driving out their employees. Management: I would safely say 85% of the managers are unfit for the position. Most of them have 0 to little experience managing people and only got there because of tenure. Managers play favorites and desperately need cultural competency and diversity training. Employee Resources- Until this day I do not have a clue who our HR business partner is. Employees are not given information on who they can go to to safely share feedback. Employees do not have the tools to help them succeed or grow internally. The people team prioritizes planning happy hours over providing us with things we actually need. Diversity- You'll hear the executive team brag about how diverse we are all time but that's certainly not the case. Its nothing more than a marketing tactic and management has no interest in making it a priority. The response given when an employee asked if we were going to focus on it was along the lines of "its not a problem yet [lack of diversity], so no, but feel free to start it if you want ". People of color and other minorities do not feel included or represented in upper management. Overall, I do not recommend working here. While the company is building a great product, there are so many issues that are going unaddressed and the culture is suffering because of it.

1.0
Mar 27, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The SDR team is the best in the business. Best product in the market.

Cons

TripActions is one huge pile of nonsense. If you are a great AE at a great company looking at TripActions, close your computer and get off that zoom interview. For years I watched top reps at great companies leave because they got sold the nonexistent dream at TripActions, only to get fired within 3 months because "it was a bad fit" Micro-management to the next level. The CRO spends his time watching gong calls ensuring reps are wearing collared shirts. Top individual contributors' jobs are threatened weekly for not making enough cold calls and for wearing t-shirts on internal sales calls. It's lunacy. The comp plan is a mess. It's been changed like 7 times. Commercial reps make 80k paychecks for pilots that produce zero revenue, and enterprise reps make 1/3 of that. It is also an absolute boys club. White strong personality men dominate the leadership team, and then HR is confused why every single female in the organization is walking away. Um, take a look around. The highest level female in sales is a commercial AE manager and she has been in that role for almost 2 years. Also, women don't respond well to your threatening leadership style and manic blow ups.

1.0
Aug 30, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

"Trauma bonding" with other coworkers over how insane this place is.

Cons

The Glassdoor reviews are accurate. In a nutshell, the CEO is absolutely insane (and instead of trying to fix the company, he's wasting internal resources to try and "fix Glassdoor"). The only folks left on the C-Suite are brown nosers who are not qualified for their roles and are going to profit off of all the abuse and toxicity they've put onto their employees. People get hired because they're friends with leaders, not because they deserve it. On top of that, this place is comically misogynistic. It's 2023 and still pretty much everyone in a leadership role is a white male, they fired/laid off a lot of POC on their HR team, and continue to promote men and white people. This place used to be FUN and exciting to work at....now when I see people join, I question their sanity given these Glassdoor reviews. They aren't doing formal layoffs but instead randomly let go of people here and there. One colleague got two weeks severance which is inhumane...but to be honest I'd rather be let go then work here another minute.

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