Podium reviews

A lot of decisions that were made within the last 2 years had negative outcomes. This started when they hired a big name exec who helped push some new initiatives and changed our sales structure. After a few months, the exec was fired, but his name is still brought up to this day as a scapegoat. A few years ago, we never missed sales quota. It wasn't in our DNA. With that said, I can't recall the last time we actually hit our monthly sales quota. They laid off 12% of the company in December 2022, just before Christmas. At that time, they also announced they were removing our 401k match, the weekly Wednesday lunches, the weekly smoothies, our golf pass at Fox Hollow, an indoor golf simulator (that was purchased less than 1 year ago), and more. 1 month ago, they announced that the CEO wants all local employees within a 50 miles radius to come into the office Tuesday-Thursday starting August 15th. From what I gathered, the majority of local employees were not happy about this. We even had a Q&A with some execs where questions were asked about this, and received mostly canned responses and they deferred blame to the CEO. There was no data to back up why we had to go into the office, and it was admitted that us being remote for the past 3 years was effective, but they still would not give exemptions for people who did not want to or were unable to come in. After multiple town hall meetings over the last few months where the CEO was boasting about how good our numbers looked since the last layoffs and how our goal is to not have any other layoffs, we were all surprised when 23% of the company was once again laid off on Wednesday August 9th. I've heard that they also announced that the 401k match was back during the town hall meeting the following day. As someone who was at Podium during its "rocket ship" stage, I believe that those days are long gone.

Emotionally driven decisions by the CEO that other C-level leaders struggle to rationalize to their departments. Out of the blue, hundreds of employees who were hired as remote were told they'd have to start driving to the office, even if they lived 50 miles away. When asked why, the CEO just referenced the "magic" of being in the office. When asked what data went into the decision, the answer was flatly "none". Imagine upending the lives of hundreds of employees, against the recommendations of your C-suite, just because you believe in magic. This is the Podium experience.