Bonusly Reviews

2.9

39% would recommend to a friend

(71 total reviews)
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Charles Hough

55% approve of CEO

30% positive business outlook

Bonusly has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 71 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Bonusly employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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71 reviews
1.0
9 Sept 2019

Lies and fake reviews

Recommend
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Pros

During my employment at Bonusly I was forced to post reviews written by our CEO which did not reflect employees views or the actual company culture. Now that I no longer work there I can actually share the truth!

Cons

Bonusly states being employee engagement focused but all the employees I was working with were actively looking for work elsewhere. The CEO is a narcissist and creates a toxic work environment where backdoor politics and lies are free flowing. The ''flexibility'' is the result of a lack of leadership and vision. The legacy code needs to be completely replaced and is a massive security vulnerability, but management prefers to patch and put their heads in the sand under pretext that they are ''growing'' (which is false). As for transparency management only share what reinforces their preaching and if you challenge them on missing information you get the silent treatment... All in all this company looked amazing from the outside, but once you are in you start noticing the dirty truth that they do not care about anyone including their clients... what ever sells licenses is whatever they will say and ask their employees to repeat...

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Bonusly Response
6y
This review is full of false information, and could not have been posted by one of our employees, current or former. As the CEO, I take this very seriously and am working with Glassdoor to investigate this post. "I was forced to write reviews" - this has never happened. I have never asked employees to write glassdoor reviews, let alone forced them to do anything. Furthermore, if you were forced to write a positive review, why did you not log back in and edit that review to say all this, instead of writing a new one? "all the employees I was working with were actively looking for work elsewhere" - this can't be true, because our unwanted attrition rate for the last two years was 0%. "The CEO is a narcissist and creates a toxic work environment" - Our quarterly employee engagement scores range from 4.6 to 4.9 (out of 5) across 7 questions. It seems unlikely that this would happen if I was creating a toxic work environment. "The legacy code needs to be completely replaced and is a massive security vulnerability" Also false. Our codebase is very up-to-date and we dedicate one or more development threads at all times to address tech debt. We undergo an independent security audit annually that consists of both black-box and white-box testing. We are PrivacyShield certified. We are currently undergoing a SOC2 assessment and anticipate full certification by Q1 2020. "As for transparency management only share what reinforces their preaching" Not true. We share all company KPIs, in real time, with all employees. Those KPIs don't always have good news. For example, I recently shared our company demographic data with the organization, and acknowledged that we have real deficiencies in diversity in certain areas. I invite critical feedback and thank employees whenever they deliver it, because it helps me better serve them. It saddens me that someone who never even worked at Bonusly felt the need to post all this false information about us.
1.0
24 Sept 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Nice people Super easy product to learn and attempt to sell Decent pay and benefits Fully Remote

Cons

No one has hit quota for at least 6 months running, therefore you can expect to make only your base pay in a sales role here. Management is atrocious. Management knows nothing about the job the reps do, has terrible ideas, and generally is just atrocious at motivating employees. Seriously one of the worst management structures I've ever seen try to do a job. Totally obvious they are stressed, horrible approach to solving problems - every question you ask them "I will look into that and circle back" only to have to eventually ask them if they found an answer to your question. Managers are constantly leaving. The quotas are massive and NO ONE on the teams even come close to hitting, maybe one rep will hit every now and then. I've heard over and over and over from potential customers that the competition (probably around 12 companies) not only bring a lot more to the table product-feature wise - but they are also better priced. Seriously, closing sales here is very difficult. They do a monthly quota with a product where the sales cycle is 3-6 months? Management spends every second (rightfully) focusing on how horribly the product is selling. Instead of any meaningful changes in the product or the structure of the sales system, you get super cheesy and half-hearted motivational weekly meetings and really bad ideas pitched by 'managers' who think they can mix it up. It's terrible for morale to hear over and over that the company is failing. I am writing this to let other potential sales reps know that they will not hit their quotas, no one even comes close. Do not listen to their "target compensation" you will only ever make your base pay.

1.0
24 May 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Room to grow (maybe), solid stepping stone, low expectations performance-wise, product is interesting

Cons

CEO lacks leadership skills/empathy, company is on a clear track towards being left behind by competitors, release of new features is rare or non-existent, high turnover, CEO continues to squash culture by invading personal space in a remote ecosystem

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