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
Jan 16, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great individual contributors Decent events Wednesday and Thursday lunch provided

Cons

Low pay Outrageously bad management Poor planning for teams required to work on holidays.

2.0
Dec 20, 2022

Last 9 months were a steady decline

Recommend
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Pros

Great intro to Tech sales, But the same can be said for some other higher paying companies. Used to be very flexible with when you could work if you were performing. Used to have great pay. Used to trust their employees. A lot of the Pros are gone now, along with some of the best people. I just left Podium and wish I could have stayed, but the job and company changed for the worse and pay and work life balance was much higher elsewhere.

Cons

Podium used to defend its slightly below average compensation with great benefit's, of which have mostly been cut. They have also not given a raise to the SDR org in over 3 years.. The sales org has turned into a micromanaging machine around the time Than moved to CSO and Miriam became head of general Council. These things may come at a cost of preparing to go public, but could be costing Podium some of its best talent.

2.0
Oct 7, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

In my almost 2 years at Podium, I had a lot of upward movement and career progression opportunities. I like that they value hard work and reward that with promotions. I love the people at Podium. It's the best part of the company. The products are really cool as well. It was cool being a part of a company that did so much for small businesses. In the beginning, they offered a lot of cool swag. They haven't really done much in terms of swag lately though (I think since Dec. '21). I heard that the person in charge of swag was let go and they haven't reintroduced swag since. They bring in lunch every Wednesday which is nice.

Cons

CONSTANT changes. I was thrown for a major loop almost every 6-7 months. Departments being dissolved, moving to a new team, directors being let go. It was realllllly challenging to get your footing underneath you. Just when you would feel like you got the hang of things you would be thrown another change. I know that with a fast growing company comes change, but they would spring HUGE changes on the company and expect everyone to role with the punches. Even if it majorly impacted the employees - like layoffs. If you like waking up one day and seeing 40% of your team get let go with no warning beforehand, this is the place for you. They preach that you can have a work like balance at Podium, but when it comes to balance, that was not my experience. If I had dr's appts, appts for my kid, etc, I had my manager slacking me all day everyday. I didn't feel like the management truly trusted me as an employee. Since July, things have started going downhill at this company - and very quickly. Lots of higher ups (directors, TL's and VP's) have left over the last several months. It's always a bit concerning when people who have been with the company almost since the beginning start leaving all at once. I feel like Podium's leaders have lost touch with the employees and it's sad. They have lost a huge amount of talent due to poor judgement.

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