Podium reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,183 total reviews)
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Eric Rea

75% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Podium has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,183 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Podium 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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1.0
Aug 10, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good OTE if you hit quota (22% of the organization hit quota in July, this is above average) Easy to get hired

Cons

Podium hires classes of 30-40 AEs every two weeks, takes the top 2 or 3, and fires the rest within a month. Their training is laughably disorganized and long-winded. A simple lesson that could be video is stretched into 3, 1-hour long podcasts like zoom calls. While important training like how to send a quote or give a demo is skipped or forgotten about until after you need them. You're expected to close a deal on your own within the first 2 weeks of hiring or you'll be put on a 3 day PIP. Statistically, you have a 6-7% chance of making it out of their training program, only to be part of a sales team that regularly has less than 20% quota attainment. Good luck I would strongly recommend going elsewhere.

1.0
Apr 4, 2022

Trimming the fat

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Podium has an excellent product that actually works.

Cons

Podium has no concern for their employees right now, they are trimming the fat so they look really good to the investors. They’ve been talking about a company goal for the last 3 years or so that will help benefit those investors and it seems like they’re getting desperate to make it happen and it’s negatively effecting the work environment and I’m not sure it’ll ever go back. I have spoken to dozens of employees and there is a lot of uncertainty and anxiety that's being caused by the attitude of upper management. I used to tell everyone how much I loved it there and now my feelings have definitely changed.

1.0
Oct 13, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I love working from home.

Cons

Our onboarding process is a joke! We can sell the best deal in sales, and they will cancel 2 days later because our onboarding process sucks. Hey customer, if you sign today, we will get you up and running quickly. Oh wait, we will send you a whole bunch of emails first so you can try and figure out how to setup your account yourself. Once you figure that out, go ahead and try to figure out how to use it and start sending messages to your customers. Oh you have questions, sorry we can't call you or talk to you about it until your team training 7 days day from now. You need help now? Yea sorry that's not how our process works. Yes I'm your CS rep but I am not allowed to help you until 30 days from now when the onboarding team is done with you. Oh you wanna cancel? Ok hold on, let me go ask my manager Sean if I can break protocol and give you call. Best part sales still get the clawback even if it's totally out of their control why the customer cancelled. I can go on and on about how crappy things are internally. But hey just dial some more and smile. The harder you work, the luckier you get.

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