Our only hope is new management - Anonymous employee Pendo Employee Review

1.0
24 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Talented (but severely under-appreciated and overworked) ICs

Cons

- Constant layoffs of talented team members, with no respect for tenure or loyalty. - AI-obsessed leadership who change the roadmap and company direction with the wind based on whatever they last read online. - Promotion, rewards based on who you know, how liked you are, or tenure—vs talent or accomplishments. - Complete ignorance of the state of the industry and market, losing on both product and price (it shows). - Absence of an inspiring vision or team culture there once was, most employees are totally checked out. - Constant pushing of employees to move faster with simultaneous new red tape & processes to follow to the letter. - Burning money like no tomorrow on AI or consultants, or the cult-like company events, while gutting teams every other month.

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5.0
25 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people, challenging work, tons of room to grow if you’re willing to own outcomes. Smart, ambitious, creative ppl who care about customers and results. The pace is very fast which energizes ppl who like that. Strong performers can have outsized impact and make money. It is fun and you get a ton.

Cons

It’s super fast paced, priorities shift, and decisions won’t always be perfectly aligned. If you need constant certainty or everything to be perfectly bake and make sense for every pov, you’ll find it frustrating. But if you can figure things out, you can roll with change (cause that’s everywhere esp right now), this place is awesome. If you’ve never worked anywhere else or are comparing things to years ago - it’s not the same.

3.0
5 Jul 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

As an engineer, the problems we solve are very interesting and at high-scale.

Cons

Crackdown in terms of metric-oriented developer productivity, but there is little accountability given to the product org setting the vision for the company. Pendo's offering is disjointed and the unclear PMF is more and more seeming to fall on engineering's shoulders as a perception of lack of output. It is entirely understandable to increase productivity with the industry pacing with that velocity, but that needs to be measured by outcomes, not inputs. And outcomes are a product of the team as a whole. Much of the industry looks like this, but I think the current sourness at Pendo is this has come at the expense of what was once a top-tier culture in the industry. One that was both highly productive and motivating. But unscrupulous decision making and leadership's lack of interest in addressing feedback has unfortunately made Pendo an uncertain place to work.

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