Bizzabo Reviews

3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(183 total reviews)
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Eran Ben-Shushan

79% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Bizzabo has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 183 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Bizzabo employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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183 reviews
1.0
12 July 2020

All smoke and mirrors

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Pros

The office was nice and allowed dogs and had a ping pong table

Cons

Where do I begin? Do you like getting aggressive texts from the Head of Sales at all hours of the day including weekends? How about being belittled in front of your peers on a daily basis? All while trying to achieve impossible targets selling an unsophisticated product to an oversaturated market? Then Bizzabo is the place for you! This place will tell you anything you want to hear, I was lied to on just about every aspect of the interview process to get me in the door, and within a month realized the mistake I had made. This place plays favorites big time, and if you don't grovel on your knees to become buddy buddy with key people, you will be alienated and suffer as a result. They focus all of their energy on the one or two good reps they have and everyone else fights for table scraps while you sit in forecasting meetings and are told you are a human piece of garbage. They have no trust whatsoever in their employees, so expect Big Bizzabrother to always be watching everything you do. Expect to work long hours and be told you aren't doing enough, and expect to be ignored or told you are wrong literally any time you complain or bring up a different way of doing things. Ask questions about their processes, their ASP and sales cycle, their team tenure (don't fall for the "we're a brand new team!" BS, they turnover like crazy), and their leadership. I have never worked for a more toxic company in my life and I am still licking my wounds from this horrific experience.

1.0
25 Mar 2019

From the outside it seems ideal...it's not.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

SOME of the people are fantastic. The CEO is a good person.

Cons

Bizzabo would seem that it is a solid place to work. Unfortunately, it's not. Over the last year or so, things have dramatically changed. People have been getting let go for unbelievably insane reasons and others have been rewarded for good "values" when they are the same people treating new employees in a disgusting manner. The product is mundane and trying to compete in a market with dozens of DIRECT competitors-- it won't last-- if you're trying to work in a disruptive market with out of the box technology, this is not the place for you. This company preaches values unlike anywhere else I have worked, and unfortunately, when it matters, the values don't count for anything. The environment is cliquey and the management team is young and naive. They have kept people on board who are extremely bad at their jobs, but because they have been "loyal", they keep them when it is not in the best interest of the company, team...or bottom line. At the same time, they have let really awesome people go for reasons that would never be allowed..ever..if this was not an at-will state.

2.0
24 Mar 2017
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Pros

Bizzabo has a strong vision of who they want to be. There's a lot of data tracking and discussion about how to get there. The software development team in Israel is fast to release new features and work with the marketing team to start promoting. Management does not constrain with rules about territory or price, everything is based on what you can get away with. If you work really hard, you can earn well as the commission plan has accelerators (and penalties). There's great benefits, beer on tap, opportunities to travel, dogs in the office, ping pong table, expensive dinners, lots of social activities and other perks that trendy start-ups offer to attract young talent. The attitude is that its the investors' money anyway so might as well spend it!

Cons

There's a clearly double standards for different groups of employees. As the co-founders are all former Israeli military personnel, there's a lot of internal propaganda and pep talks about values. There's even a Zionist slogan written on the wall as you enter the office "If you will it, it is no dream." The goal is to create a cult called the "Bizza-Family", so that employees will work much longer hours and overlook obvious shortcomings. Even when nobody is in the office there are constant emails, Whatsapp and Slack messages. Advancing in the sales team is based on friendship with the Vice President. He's filled openings with his drinking buddies who are promoted within a few months of joining. Women on the sales team are expected to wait years for promotions that men get in just a few months. The lack of ethnic diversity is also concerning; there have been very few minority employees and only 1 has remained for more than a few months.

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