The Sunken Place - Recensione dipendente - Dipendente anonimo presso Poll Everywhere

1,0
31 mar 2021
Dipendente anonimo
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Internet and phone reimbursement Annual bonus In person retreats (pre COVID) and virtual

Svantaggi

Executive leadership is very comfortable in their own privilege (all white cisgender men). People Ops is ineffective and requires all complaints to be proven with data until they are addressed and found to be valid. Once you have presented your case they will tell you that they do not believe you, this is commonly known as gaslighting. The CEO is like a helicopter parent with a serious case of White Saviour Complex. In a company of about 60 people, there are 2 black people, none of whom are in leadership. If you're not enjoying yourself here, People Ops will attribute it to your personal choice not to participate in the culture. People Ops intentionally misleads when recruiting in terms of culture. They know we have a big problem but are loathe to try and fix it. DEI work is performative and leadership/People Ops are uninterested in trying to actually do the work required. Massive amounts of emotional labor are placed on minority groups. Transphobia blatantly ignored by leadership. High turnover (a disproportionate number of POC have started to flee in the time I've been here). We have an attrition problem. We have dropped by at least 15 people in the past year. A steep decline in work-life balance in the near 2 years I’ve been here, especially on client-centric teams. These people are undervalued and suffer from year-round burnout. Onboarding is loosely structured and makes it difficult for new people to learn a very complicated product. Communication between many (not all) teams is either aggressive or extremely vague. Leadership thrives on ambiguity rather than conveying concrete and actionable messages. Leadership is very concerned with Glassdoor reviews and will do their best to determine who the person providing the negative comments is. Pay is not competitive and the justification is that it's because this is such a wonderful place to work. To those who are considering joining - look elsewhere. To those who are still there - get out.

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Risposta di Poll Everywhere
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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

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5,0
18 dic 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Competitive pay and strong benefits. Close-knit, personal company culture—a small team makes collaboration and communication more meaningful. Supportive management invested in your growth and well-being. Transparency from leadership, even in challenging situations. Flexibility of working from home, with resources to set you up for success.

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17 dic 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Poll Everywhere gives AEs a high level of autonomy and trusts you to run your pipeline. Leadership is accessible and transparent, and communication across teams feels authentic rather than performative and superficial. The product is stronger than ever, and Engineering and Product are highly engaged in bringing the best possible solution to market. Benefits are competitive, work-life balance is respected, and remote work is fully supported without micromanagement.

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This role expects a high level of autonomy, self-accountability, and ownership. With that higher-than-average expectation comes a corresponding level of respect, trust, and care from management and leadership. That balance is a major positive for the right person, but if you’re looking for a heavily guided role where you can simply punch in and punch out each day, this probably isn’t the right fit.

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