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
Oct 30, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Up until the last few months Podium was a great place to work and this review would have looked very different back then. The people I work with are great and Podium gives you some decent resources for success if you're willing to work hard and learn. Pay and benefits are alright if you're hitting your numbers, but they're nothing special.

Cons

There isn't much opportunity here for growth, at least in the sales organization. They continue to let go of employees and management does a lot of outside hiring. They will claim they want to promote from the inside but their actions scream the opposite. Upper management has transitioned to "if you don't do what we say, you're losing your job." Although it hasn't been enforced quite as aggressively as it's been stated, it definitely shows in the culture. The micromanagement is at an all time high. It's obvious that Podium is bleeding as are many companies in this industry are right now. I don't think Podium has handled it well though within the sales organization. There are other options out there, I would suggest you go somewhere else if you're starting a career. Don't let them sell you on a career path they can't promise.

2.0
Aug 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of Flexibility, not a lot of micromanagement. People below management were knowledgeable and helpful

Cons

- Every decision was top down and too much emphasis was on constantly shipping instead of scaling something reliable - Testing was just, not done. They loved to test in production and did little to invest in QA or pre-production testing. What's worse, proposing anything of the sort was shot down completely because it "was slow" - Rigid eng culture. Management was more interested in yes-folk - SRE team was not at all interested in reliability and instead just wanted to hand work off to others

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