Buzzwords - Anonymous employee Zendesk Employee Review

1.0
Apr 6, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can coast and hide

Cons

After PE acquisition only buzzwords. RIFs every 3 months with no reason if not cut costs and prepare for RTO. All remote employees are targeted. No vision, try to copy competitors. No direction

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5.0
May 4, 2026
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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
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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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