The swarm of recent feedback should already be an indication of how things are in Pipedrive, and not just now but for the past year or so. Can’t agree enough with some of the recent posters who have said how inspiring Pipedrive used to be until the acquisition and turning into vista-intuit-corporate machine. No one who I have spoken recently is really happy here- most are either waiting to get stocks, wait for the exit or are looking around already. I don’t agree that Product issues are related to the CPO, as I think he is doing a great job, but it seems not much is up to him with the current structure. I have more questions for other product leaders who have been there for some time without any visible results. However, I do agree that promotions are generally a joke, and feedback culture no longer exists. HR team doesn’t really seem to care about the actual wellbeing of employees and the issues on hand, but I guess they are overworked since Pipedrive decided to fire loads of people back in November. And by the way, there are different ways that you can do this, and that’s why there was no backlash after the covid lay-offs in Pipedrive a few years ago. It was justified, things had to change due to the difficult situation in the world. This time it seems like it was a poor attempt to make the numbers meet so that everyone could get bonuses, including the C-levels. I mean, pretty convenient to lay off like 12% of the company but then start hiring again less than TWO months later followed by a stream of promotions, bonuses, team events ,etc. Yeah, Pipedrive was definitely going through ‘tough’ times it seems.. but here is a lesson to everyone in the company- even if you have always performed, live by company’s values, never had any issues whatsoever- it doesn’t matter. The business has a goal to reach and humans are not important. Unless you are friends with the c-level;) was an eye-opener to me of how things have changed and never will be the same in Vista Pipedrive.
