The Sunken Place - Anonymous employee Poll Everywhere Employee Review

Our exec leadership and People Ops teams wrote this together. Here at PE, we try to live the authenticity we talk about both in our hiring process as well as in the day-to-day work. We first want to acknowledge that your perspective is a valid one and is respected. We do see and hear so many other, more positive perspectives from our current and past employees, but we recognize that this perspective is yours to own. Anyone reading this is invited to ask anyone who works here (or used to), “Hey - what was that early 2021 glassdoor about?” I trust anyone you reach out to will speak their truth and do their best to decode this experience that’s got moments of truth, moments of something less, and a lot of valid hurt. One way I trust your experience was so painful is that the review is written in a way that takes many of our aspirations, our open vulnerabilities, and the things we’re proud of, and tries to exploit or deny them one by one. That hurts. We feel it. We’re sorry about where we failed and for the trauma you experienced. As a candidate, you should ask anyone here what we do to confront our privilege as an exec team that’s currently all cis white men. The leadership hasn’t looked this way for most of the company’s history and we commit to it being temporary. In 2020, Poll Everywhere committed to DE&I training, donated software and services to organizations who advanced racial justice, and compensated members who participated in our DE&I committee. To our knowledge, we’re proud to have put more funding and effort into these causes than other companies our size. We’ve made a serious commitment. There’s no denying we have a long way to go. This year was hard as hell. We got through COVID with no layoffs. One team fell apart, bad. Some of that was leadership’s fault. We’ll never expose people’s private situations, and we try not to refute people’s lived experiences. This is hard work for everybody, and we know by trying to build a more diverse team we're opening ourselves up to critiques, but we think it's worth it, even reading a critique as difficult as this, to continue going down this long road and make progress. Respectfully, Jeff