Going downhill - Account Executive Podium Employee Review

2.0
30 Aug 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people at Podium are great and the culture was solid. Flew everyone out to Utah for a week of training which was great. They used to pay for everyone that worked remotely to visit once a quarter to be around the office and culture but they have cut back on that.

Cons

Turnover in the Sales department is about 6 months. The commission they tell you AEs have made in the past is when they were selling in the enterprise space. Very few AEs selling in the SMB space come anywhere close to quota, most struggle to get to half of quota. My new hire class was the biggest they've had and the one following mine was about double. The company struggled last quarter as did the industry and they have been going through a lot of layoffs to fix their mistakes. It seems that they are looking to go public soon and they have been making a lot of changes and seem to only be worried about their bottomline.

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5.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay, high performing culture and coaching

Cons

High pressure, some can’t handle it

3.0
6 Jul 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great coworkers, lower-middle management, product, PTO “unlimited” which isn’t true but does allow flexible usage, generous 2 days off for many holidays, and catered food ~3 times a month, regularly stocked fridge with energy drinks, soda, and water.

Cons

Top down leadership disconnected from sales and customer success team. Little coordinated efforts between nearly every department. Overhauled the pay structure Jan 2026, getting rid of the performance based promotion and pay scaling. Preventing OM’s from making the advertised 77k leading to many of us now stuck at 60k or 66k w/ a horrible annualized raise schedule (high performers not getting raises left waiting for potential raises that likely won’t come this year). Nearly nonexistent HR that is hard to get in communication with.

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