Good managers but sr. leadership and culture are terrible - Sales BetterUp Employee Review

1.0
May 22, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

My manager is great and there are good perks and benefit packages.

Cons

We're living in the past as the company goes no where. Everyone knows it and talks about it openly behind the founders backs. Disney is the only thing holding up this shell of a company. Sadly, the equity all the employees have is near worthless and won't ever return to the last value. The company perfectly engineered for a 2021 world where every enterprise believed unlimited budgets, remote work forever, and unlocking human potential through $400/hour Zoom coaching sessions was the future of business. Unfortunately, the market shifted from inspirational wellness narratives to “show me the operational ROI immediately!" and it turns out human coaching businesses don’t scale like software. AI can now generate leadership advice infinitely cheaper, and CFOs are cutting transformational resilience journeys before they cut systems actually tied to revenue, compliance, or execution. So now BetterUp is stuck trying to convince the market it’s simultaneously a coaching company, an AI company, a leadership platform, a transformation platform, and probably a moonshot consciousness layer for enterprise humanity.

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5.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

Amazing team Rewarding cross functional work Interesting tasks Learning opportunities Flexible work schedule

Cons

As this is a contractor role, there are no benefits

5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nearly 8 years in, and the work still pulls me forward. What keeps me at BetterUp is that the problems are genuinely hard and genuinely worth solving. I came from engineering, so I'm wired to care about infrastructure, not just features, and this is one of the rare places where you can build something foundational and actually see it move metrics, clear escalations, and unblock a whole go-to-market motion. The mission isn't decorative here. I can feel the thread between the work and the outcome. BetterUp also trusts you to figure things out across lanes. I've written SQL, prototyped with AI tools, facilitated workshops, and co-designed vendor strategy, all as a PM, because the culture doesn't penalize curiosity or reaching into adjacent territory. And honestly, some of my closest friendships came out of this place. The people I work with, on engineering, on cross-functional teams, and in peer mentorship, are people I genuinely learn from and, in some cases, people I can't imagine not having in my life. That combination of meaningful infrastructure work, real trust, and people who challenge you and become your people is not easy to find. The benefits span beyond general work-life-balance, if you're curious about something, there's always an open door to learn and contribute. As a woman in tech, I cherish the fact that our colleagues listen to women, and our insight is taken into account instead of just ignored. It's nice to feel safe at work, able to speak your mind freely.

Cons

If you want a boring job, this is not the place for you.

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