Had a bad experience :( - Anonymous employee Zendesk Employee Review

2.0
Mar 8, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- nice office - free unhealthy snacks, if that's your thing - free beer on tap - free food, but it's not great. No hot food. - $1500 development budget which you can spend on conferences, courses, books, etc. - RSUs & ESPP - some people are nice, like in every company - generous parental leave (both maternity and paternity) - phone allowance

Cons

- Managers: incompetent, unfair, biased, self-serving, lacking in people skills, playing favourites. Some of these managers were lucky to be in the right place at the right time when the company was growing fast, and got promoted to their level of incompetence. And they keep getting promoted, even though their reports are leaving! - 360 reviews are a joke, no one seems to care about the feedback you provide. - Promotion criteria are unclear. It really comes down to whether your manager likes you or not. - Salaries are not that great. - Very stingy with WFH. - No exit interview. They just give you a short form to complete. I guess nobody really wants to know why you’re leaving.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

The people you work directly with are nice and the unlimited PTO was nice, and everyone was very chill about you taking time off when you needed.

Cons

It used to be a pretty good place to work but then after Zendesk got acquired everything slowly got worse and worse culture-wise. There were also multiple layoffs and re-orgs that caused a lot of confusion and cognitive debt, all the while management was still expecting more productivity somehow???? With layoffs practically every year and veiled threats about having to use AI more (more how?! There was no direction), working there kind of felt like working with a gun to my head.

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