Semrush reviews

Disclaimer- I had to remove the previous review and re-uploaded this due to confusion with one of the ex-employees who was let go recently. I used to work in the company till end of 2024 and review below is a combination of my firsthand experience of nearly 9 years and recent actions company took. Used to be a great company with lots of growth opportunities and true culture. Now the rift between C level and the rest is enormous, they let go of the teams that worked on projects with different divisionist and no one can replace . After that management blames others in their harsh decisions because apparently no one explained the true value of aforementioned teams. The atmosphere is of fear and uncertainty, especially for those tied to their working visas, but higher management pretends that everything is great (which is not and can be proven by recent results and market reaction, just google it). Internal operations is not even a joke cause it simply doesn’t exist, every division is siloed, there is 0 to very little cooperation, everyone is trying to chase made up goals that have no real influence on results)internal or external). Move towards corporate America was their biggest mistake, as this led to a culture of praising each other and patting on the back between higher management while those who actually do the job suffered for the lack of the better word. Burnout is real, along with transparent hints on the current job market (like be grateful you still work here and don’t complain). Regardless, they will ask employees to create a bunch of fake positive reviews just to keep rating high (just check out a review from 27th of August, the day 120 people were laid off, looks genuine for sure). UPD - already deleted 😆 I’d advise to talk to anyone who’s an ex employee of the last year or so to get a real picture before joining.

As noted, there are definitely some issues with process that need improving. These are not existential crises to be fair, but rather quality of life issues and corporate bureaucratic red tape that make the job harder than it needs to be. There are serious silos and a lack of transparency from department to department. But there is an acknowledgement from the CEO all the way down to frontline management of these issues, a roadmap for fixing them, and already demonstrable evidence of improvement. Semrush is lightyears ahead of where it was when I joined, and the trajectory a year from now is far greater than where we are today. If you can self-start and pick up sales process pretty quickly, have no issues self-generating pipeline, and are enthusiastic about the intersection of SEO and AI, you can have a great experience working here as I have had.