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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3.0
Jan 29, 2018

Lack of Job Security, Good Culture

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Pros

Good Culture, great product, smart management team leading the company to great things

Cons

Lack of job security. Lots of layoffs happen without provocation. That's the risk of working for a startup. Company says they are growing and will be adding 400 new jobs in next few years, yet qualified talent is let go on a whim.

1.0
May 8, 2025

Not worth it at all

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Pros

Great people to work with. Met some great individuals during my time.

Cons

Pretty much everything else. Burnout, anxiety, lack of support, gaslighting and more. If they like you you’ll do great and it really is a good fit for some. But at what cost? The pay is decent but you can get paid just the same or more to have a much more manageable work life balance. The product isn’t that good and there’s always issues. They will give you way too many accounts that can’t run their business day to day because the product isn’t working properly. There’s also no communication between off shore support and the on shore teams. To this day I still receive phone calls from Podium clients when I never gave out my personal phone number. If you can take any review seriously, take this one. If you don’t have any other offers it’s not a bad start but don’t plan on staying for too long.

2.0
Feb 20, 2025

Weird

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Pros

Very fun customer base - solving problems for local businesses is refreshing. Always something new to work on. The overall employee base is fun to be around - genuinely great people at all levels.

Cons

CEO exec team are skilled and gritty - perfect for the initial startup stage. The business unfortunately grew faster than they did. Eric wants to win but isn't a good fit for this scale. It's disappointing to see him guess, check and reorg instead of executing (or hiring) correctly. This lack of stability fosters a weird boys club culture; people move teams so often that employees see reorgs as advancement opportunities (seriously). This is why you see folks reference a "Game of Thrones" environment inside. Proceed with caution.

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