Bankrupt culture, unpredictable experience - Anonymous employee Zendesk Employee Review

2.0
Jun 20, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I was with Zendesk for two years. It could be a great place to work if you are in the right job or have the right manager.

Cons

Terrible office products. Classism between certain departments. Directionless. The company changed a lot between when I joined and when I left, most of it not for the better.

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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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