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      Convene Reviews

      3.2

      44% would recommend to a friend

      (292 total reviews)

      Ryan Simonetti

      70% approve of CEO

      42% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.3

      Work/Life balance

      3.2

      Compensation and benefits

      3.1

      Career opportunities

      2.9

      Culture and values

      2.9

      Diversity and inclusion

      2.7

      Senior management

      Convene has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 292 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Convene employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real estate industry (3.8 stars).

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      292 reviews
      2.0
      3 Nov 2018

      Be Careful

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      The company culture on paper sounds great and they do offer a lot of courses of continued education. If they like you, there is room for career development.

      Cons

      They are quick to cover their bases if an employee is not up to par. They expect a lot out of their individual employees, but take very little time in investing with what they actually need. Regardless of performance in your overall job function, they will be quick to write you up for small mistakes and tell you it is purely so it is documented for HR. If you complain about the long hours or bring an issue to their attention, do not be surprised if there is retaliatory action taken against you. They are very quick to low ball you on salary and say 14 hour days are their "standard".

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      Convene Response
      7y
      Hi, and thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. On behalf of the leadership team at Convene, we appreciate your candor and courage to be transparent. It is our top priority to also be transparent while doing our best to communicate effectively to all members of the Convene team. However, with any high-growth company that is expanding rapidly, there are growing pains and areas of improvement to work on. We are disappointed to hear that your experience with Convene to date has not aligned with our intention of being a best place to work. Because of employees like you that are willing to discuss the challenges you’ve experienced, we can learn and improve ourselves as a company. As CEO, I am always willing to listen to feedback and make changes where necessary, so we can continue to strive to be 1% better every day. I would like to have an opportunity to discuss your feedback directly. Or, if you feel more comfortable and would prefer to speak with a member of the People & Culture team, we can arrange that as well. Please reach out to my assistant Jamie (jslee@convene.com) to find us a time to discuss. Thank you, Ryan Simonetti, CEO & Co-Founder, Convene
      1.0
      6 Aug 2020

      This Company Had Major Issues Even Prior To COVID.

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Free snacks, nice office spaces

      Cons

      Upper Management does not listen and you are consistently blamed for things instead of everyone being held accountable for their piece of the mistake. Ryan Simonetti finishes every review with his email address so you can contact him about issues within the company, when in my experience, if you speak out, you get into trouble. I won’t go into further details but in my case, I viewed some actions taken by upper management to be out of line, so much so that I had to speak with HR about it. Nothing was done to protect me as an employee. The company took a nose dive with the departure of Chris Kelly. The company culture from when I started back in 2018 has completely disappeared. Companies change, but they should change for the better, not worse and it would be great if leadership stopped making excuses for this issue (COVID, structural changes, etc.) and instead recognized the part they play in creating this negative environment. It is a toxic culture and there is very little diversity. They had so many opportunities to turn things around and I’m really not sure how they’ll recover now. It’s a shame because I met some amazing people here and they deserved better.

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      Convene Response
      5y
      Hi, and thank you for writing this review. First of all, I am deeply concerned that you felt like speaking out could lead to repercussions for you. We have a very transparent culture at Convene and I can assure you that leadership truly listens to our employees and makes changes as a result. We recognize that we are far from perfect, and sometimes actions/changes take longer than we'd like them to, but we deeply care about the feelings of our employees and have open lines of communication for that reason. I put my email in all of my Glassdoor responses but I genuinely want to listen and learn as much as I can. My door is always open. Regarding your comment about diversity, it's important you know that we are also deeply committed to making changes to become a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable company. Unfortunately, this is not something that can happen overnight. But, actions speak much louder than words so I want to share some of our short/long term plans to address this. Until we ramp up again with hiring, we are focused on rewriting internal policies to be more inclusive, sponsoring internal trainings related to unconscious bias/conscious inclusion, launching a commitment to sourcing products from more diverse-owned businesses, and hosting a series of conversations with our Employee Resource Groups to have more open dialogue around race, sexual orientation, inclusivity, intersectionality, and more. Longer term, we will implement robust hiring practices such as new university partnerships and blind resume reviews (to name a few) to ensure more diverse candidates enter our pipeline across the board - everywhere from internships to our leadership team. I agree with you that it is extremely important that we have more diverse ideas and experiences present across all teams within the company. Finally, I am saddened to read that you feel like Convene does not care for or prioritize our employees. We have gone above and beyond to invest in our team members for the last 10+ years, and are always looking for ways to improve the employee experience. While I am sorry your time with Convene ended with you feeling like we did not live up to our expectation of being a "great place to work," I hope you know that we will always keep trying to be 1% better for our new and current team members. As I mentioned above, my door is always open if you'd like to set up time to chat about your feedback further at rsimonetti@convene.com. With Gratitude, Ryan Simonetti, Chief Executive Officer
      2.0
      21 Apr 2020

      This place used to not suck

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - There have been a lot of great people who have come through the doors. Unfortunately, most have exited. - The snacks are pretty good. The ForFive coffee however is awful.

      Cons

      - Everyone trying to please the dear leader. Promotions based on whether you're serving your middle manager/liege lord and playing politics well vs actual merit. People constantly backstabbing each other. Incompetence and awful hiring decisions ruling the day and causing the downfall of a place that used to not suck. This is Convene. Here, you'll only get ahead if you play the game slick enough to stick around. Being good at your job doesn't get you far, especially if you point out that the emperor has no clothes. Keeping your head down and not pointing out very obvious flaws in the company is the best way to keep your job. - It's jarring to see a company where 75% of the staff in the tech and service teams are people of color but 90% of the executive team are white men. Very upstairs/downstairs mentality while lip service is given to diversity. As someone who appreciates women's events and pride events, it's absurd that these two groups are celebrated every year while black history month and hispanic heritage month are completely ignored. - Extremely poor planning and communication during the Corona virus. Even when it was obvious that this disease is very real as of Friday, March 6, leadership was telling people they were welcome to work from home while team leaders were telling employees to come in on Monday. Brilliant!

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      Convene Response
      5y
      Hi - I appreciate that you took time to share thoughtful and specific feedback with us. It is through hearing feedback like yours that we can carry out our philosophy of being 1% better every day. Please allow me to share some thoughts on some of the specific items you mention. First, impact and inclusion initiatives are a top priority for our People & Culture team this year. Among other efforts, we are currently working to improve our hiring practices to be more inclusionary as well as to create programming that has meaningful and tangible effects not only for community groups but our entire organization. I hope our work can address some of the critiques you have of our efforts in the past. Second, we’ve invested a great deal into new and improved tools and resources to support our growth over the last year. We are committed to get better at assessing and rewarding performance and will continue to hire to a top-flight standard when we are able to hire again. Your feedback is invaluable to that effort. Lastly, regarding our global pandemic response, while it wasn’t easy, our team was laser focused on an iterative crisis management plan from very early on as information changed by the hour. I am proud how we acted with prudence, thoughtfulness, haste, and heart through it all. Our first priority, as always, was the interest of the safety and wellbeing of our employees and customers. We take your feedback seriously. If you are interested in speak more at length with me on these items, please do not hesitate to reach out to me directly at rsimonetti@convene.com. Thank you again. With Gratitude, Ryan Simonetti, CEO & Co-Founder
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