Think twice -- Burnout disguised as "Passion" - Anonymous employee Justworks Employee Review

1.0
20 May 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Free unhealthy snacks - If you like being gaslit this is the place for you! - Customer Success' sheer ability to keep up with the CONSTANT org changes weekly to monthly. They call it "adaptability"; we call it directionless.

Cons

If you get a call from this company, pause. What appears to be a flexible, mission-driven culture quickly reveals itself to be performative, rigidly micromanaged and dismissive of work-life balance. If you express burnout, illness, or even basic fatigue? You’ll get asked "how are you?" but underneath the forced fake smile, the subconscious toxic message is “This is what you chose. Get over it.” Get sick? Expect 5 tickets dumped in your queue as punishment when you return. There is no real growth, just a corporate carousel. Employees were shuffled from Support to Account Management, then rebranded as “Customer Success Specialists,” only to be demoted back into Support under a new title. It’s not progression. It’s performative restructuring. During training, you’ll hear all about the company’s values: COGIS—Compassion, Openness, Grit, Integrity, and Simplicity. Unfortunately, senior leadership does not uphold these very values unless it’s to scold or to scapegoat you. Leadership is inconsistent at best, retaliatory at worst. They’re rarely aligned, except when it comes to “quietly” firing someone under vague excuses. And yes—they read your Slack messages. Private convos, harmless venting, inside jokes? All fair game to be weaponized. You are monitored far more than you are supported. Unless you have the rare luck of working under Lawrence, the only manager with actual integrity. If it weren’t for him constantly putting out fires across the department, the entire Success org would collapse. He deserves a raise and better colleagues. As for DEI? Pure lip service. Please take a gander at senior management and it becomes painfully clear: the majority of Black and Brown employees are concentrated in support roles, with little to no upward mobility. The optics are loud, and the silence around it is even louder. They want your excellence without giving you elevation. They want your labor, not your leadership. And when you make it undeniable that you deserve more? They shift the goalposts and call it “process.” If you speak up about inequity or mistreatment, you’ll find yourself iced out first, then let go. You’ll give your all and still be treated as disposable. Be smart. Protect your peace. Document everything. ( And CYA - always <3 )

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Good happy hour culture Comp for sales reps above industry norm for SMB Great marketing and brand

Cons

Look at the reviews before 2025 and look at them now. Look who was brought in since in leadership. There’s your answer. About a dozen people with ~7-10 years of tenure just left because it became unbearable. These are people leaving after getting promotions and big raises. Big red flag. The org is being run by someone who changes his mind every other week and copy and pastes “strategy” from ChatGPT. This person also constantly publicly undermines and insults managers and reps at team outings and in meetings. It’s extremely sad to see this former tech unicorn becoming a shell of itself. The worst part is senior leadership gaslights us when complaints are raised or the feedback on the engagement survey is terrible. I am unsure why C suite hasn’t stepped in to stop the bleeding. Alot of pandering about “whats changed and how great things are”. Longest tenured reps are fed leads under the table and emboldened to be toxic to more junior teammates, and snaking their leads away. The lack of professionalism here is astounding. This leads to cultural rot. The pay is good though especially once you hit 2+ years and have pipeline, so people stay with golden handcuffs. Half the managers are checked out and coasting, though there are definitely a small handful that truly care about their team and keep morale as high as possible. Look elsewhere.

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