Change agents need not apply - Sales Manager Zendesk Employee Review

2.0
Oct 19, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Overall people at Zendesk are nice, friendly and pleasant to interact with. Benefits are good and the company generally wants to do the right thing (key word wants to).

Cons

Zendesk is a place for yes-men and yes-women. If you are not someone who can blindly follow orders without question, then this is not the place for you. Individuals who ask questions, challenge the status quo, and do not believe in doing things the way they’ve always been done simply because that’s the way they’ve always been done are thought of as trouble makers, difficult and “not a culture fit”. If you can, however, nod and smile and just say “yes” you will be welcomed here and promoted accordingly. This permeates from the top throughout the organization.

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5.0
May 4, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture, good work life balance, excellent team mates, Everyone is focused on extremely bright solutions-oriented collaboration.

Cons

Many systems to learn, but this is true for any large company.

2.0
Jun 12, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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