Podium reviews

3.7

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,185 total reviews)
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Eric Rea

75% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Podium has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,185 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
Mar 3, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Product is great, it legitimately helps the businesses that use it.

Cons

I was very invested in Podium at the beginning. I worked very hard and did what I could to get better as a sales person. I was also hired with about 25 other AE's, and am the last one left. In my almost 1 year here, I've had 10-15 team members leave and 2 separate managers. Being remote is very difficult at Podium. My manager at the time would consistently not respond to slack messages, skipped 1 on 1's, which is the only 30 minutes I got with him every week, and didn't listen to or join any of my demo's until the month he was demoted. Things also rapidly change and information that could help during demos gets passed around and you won't hear about it until a few weeks later. You are only a # at Podium. Management and the exec team will tell you otherwise and tell you corporate bs like you need to fight until the end and give everything you have. People did that and were suddenly laid off. No loyalty. Overall, being an AE at Podium is very stressful and as my former manager once told me, "The juice just ain't worth the squeeze".

1.0
Feb 17, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- Nice building, good parking, food. - Awesome Coworkers - I don't consider "swag" a pro, but they do. - I dont consider living on energy drinks all day a pro, but they do.

Cons

- SDR salary is 45k (lower end of the industry average for SDR's), you can not negotiate commission in interview..even though this is a sales role. OTE was said to be 60k when in reality its around 58,000. Its going to be lower now though and I will explain why underneath. - Commission is extremely low. It was actually just lowered from 50 dollars per "opp" to around 20 dollars per "opp", expected 15 opps per month. ACV is around 1.2% commission, expected ACV is around 18,000. -Extremely high turnover rate, at SKO they discussed that it was over 100% in 2022. - In order to be promoted, you need to be a high performer..which isn't necessarily a bad thing. However, Podium will need to become your life and balance becomes difficult. - Every manager is different, there are managers who ask for "commits" during the day. If you do not hit your "commit" for the day, they will ask you to stay longer hours. Saying "no" will put you in a bad position. - Customers are upset with the software, many customers have been paying for Podium for months and still have not been onboarded. - Encouraged at many points to lie on the phones. - SDR's are undervalued and easily replaceable. Some managers will say negative things about the 100% turnover employees, once they leave. - Burn out rate is high amongst peers, however, many peers will never tell their managers that they are burnt out..so managers don't see all the sides. You are required to smile and pretend as if this job isn't an underpaying, life force sucking organization.

1.0
Aug 16, 2022

Nope.

Recommend
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Pros

Very few... Unless you're into bro culture.

Cons

Very many... just toxic. Bro culture, unorganized, frequent attrition, sexist, big egos, I could go on for days on the cons.

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