Not what is used to be - Sales Fivetran Employee Review

2.0
15 June 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fivetran does one thing well and that's hiring great ICs. Benefits are fairly competitive.

Cons

The culture has taken a major hit in the last year or so. There is a lack of transparency from leadership and decisions are made haphazardly. Fivetran was in the process of promoting folks and conducting internal interviews and within two weeks of that decided to layoff some of those people. Layoffs were handled extremely unprofessionally. They sent out an email late on a Friday for a mandatory meeting with HR on Monday, only to those who were affected. They made changes to the Sales Team comp plan, goals are unattainable and it is impossible to make a meaningful change in your quota attainment for nearly a year with this new model. Pay varies widely among people doing the same job. The longer you've worked at Fivetran, the less you make compared to your peers who were hired on more recently. Many of the managers and executive leadership team at the top are close friends outside of work and it shows. Leadership does not take well to feedback, especially at the very top with the CEO, who gets combative on All Hands when a question is asked he doesn't like. Fivetran used to be a great place to work, but I wouldn't recommend it now.

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5.0
30 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

truly a great culture when I joined, and honestly a great product picking up speed.

Cons

culture was lost a little bit over time, and company direction is different (low cost competing with enterprise motion) but still doable as a sales person.

3.0
5 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Product itself is solid and works well in its space Some smart, talented people at the IC level

Cons

Management quality is inconsistent at best, some managers lacked basic managerial skills and created a stressful, unproductive team dynamic. I can only speak for my department but culture has shifted from collaborative to highly individualistic; siloed thinking is now the norm. Directors and senior leadership are largely disconnected from ICs feedback goes nowhere and decisions often feel top-down without real input from the people doing the work. Career growth paths are unclear or nonexistent; promotions seem arbitrary and opportunities are hard to come by.

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