A Disheartening Experience—Not a Safe Space for Everyone - Human Resources Fieldwire Employee Review

1.0
24 Apr 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Most of the workforce with the exception of most leaders, directors, managers, executive team

Cons

Words truly cannot capture the emotional toll my time at Fieldwire took on me. As a multi-ethnic woman over 40, I endured years of microaggressions and systemic bias that deeply affected my mental health. Despite my qualifications and consistent performance, I was repeatedly gaslit when it came to merit and recognition. If you are Caucasian or from certain Asian backgrounds, you may find success here—even if you are underqualified or inexperienced. Promotions and raises often seem more tied to identity and proximity to leadership than to actual skill or contribution. I've seen individuals rise quickly despite clear gaps in their abilities, while more qualified Black and Brown colleagues were routinely passed over, silenced, or scrutinized more harshly. The leadership consistently assumes good intent from white or certain Asian employees, no matter their behavior. Conversely, if you're Black or Brown, you’re more likely to be labeled as "aggressive," "a bully," or "dishonest"—regardless of how professionally or competently you show up. It’s particularly disheartening to witness individuals with minimal HR experience ascend to leadership roles, while seasoned, capable professionals of color are sidelined. There’s a deeply ingrained double standard in how performance, communication, and even integrity are judged—depending on your race or ethnicity. Despite Fieldwire's public-facing commitment to DEIB, the internal culture tells a very different story. It felt more like a performance than a genuine commitment to equity, inclusion, and belonging. Work here at your own risk—especially if you're a person of color.

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1.0
10 June 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Diminishing remote opportunities Some smart ICs

Cons

The Hilti integration was the beginning of the end. Decision-making was ripped away from the people closest to the work and consolidated at the top, burying employees under layers of micromanagement and top-down oversight that made it nearly impossible to get anything meaningful done. When former leadership departed in 2025, whatever was left of the original culture collapsed entirely. Career progression became a bureaucratic obstacle course — strong performance reviews (now all written by copilot and not accurate half the time) now mean nothing; you're forced to formally interview for your own promotion, a demoralizing process that signals exactly how little tenure and results are valued. Work-life balance is essentially a fiction here. PTO technically exists, but actually taking it carries an unspoken stigma that leadership has done nothing to address. The favoritism around flexibility is blatant and deeply corrosive — managers openly apply different standards depending on whether an employee has children, creating a two-tiered workplace where your schedule, workload, and expectations are determined not by your role or performance, but by your personal life. Employees without children are quietly expected to pick up the slack, cover more, and ask for less, with no acknowledgment and no compensation. It breeds resentment, erodes trust, and makes it abundantly clear that the company views certain employees as more valuable than others based on factors that have nothing to do with their work. Engineering has been hollowed out. The innovative, fast-moving culture that drew talented people in has been replaced by suffocating enterprise bureaucracy. Teams are shackled to outdated legacy tools and processes that actively impede productivity, and any attempt to adopt modern technology gets mired in approvals that go nowhere. Hiring flatlined after 2023 — there is no growth, no investment in the team, only backfill roles that barely maintain the status quo. It's a slow bleed. The recruiting pitch is a lie. They will sell you on startup energy, ownership, and impact. None of it exists anymore. This is a large corporation with all the dysfunction that entails — slow decisions, endless approval chains, and a culture that punishes initiative. If you want to build something, move fast, and actually matter, run. There are vastly better options, and you will regret the time you spend here realizing that.

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