Horrible work life balance. Bosses will message you at 8 AM and keep meetings till 10:30PM - Senior Software Engineer Motive Employee Review

1.0
1 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

* Remote work is allowed

Cons

* No holidays are given to the employees. They claim that we can take "unlimited" holidays, but the truth is that you are expected to take 0. * No increments. * Micromanagement * Encouragement of bad working hours

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Motive Response
2y
Thank you for leaving your feedback. This is not the experience we want for any of our team members at Motive. We encourage team members to add their work hours to their calendars and block off time for any personal needs. Motive offers a generous PTO policy so you can take time off to spend with family and friends, or for when you need to disconnect. Please reach out to us at opendoor@gomotive.com to help us understand your experience further.

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Strong people and culture. Genuinely good colleagues, a collaborative environment, and a place where talented people want to do good work. After many years here, the quality of the people is the thing I'd point to first. Real mission and real product. The work matters — building technology that has a tangible safety impact in the physical world. That gives the work a sense of purpose that's hard to find elsewhere.

Cons

Leadership and organizational clarity could be stronger. As the company has grown, clearer direction, more consistent decision-making, and steadier organizational structure would help people do their best work. Uncertainty. Periods of structural and strategic change can create a sense of instability that's tiring over time, even for people who are otherwise very committed to the company.

1.0
6 Mar 2026
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Pros

- great pay - decent benefits - unlimited PTO

Cons

I really think Motive is on the decline as a workplace. this was my first SDR job, the 4 week training was useless. Managers don't provide a lot of support. Our biggest competitor is basically equal to and almost better than Motive, so there's starting to be no point in targeting those accounts. The rest are old stubborn men that love their legacy systems. People are creating fake meetings to hit quota and/or look like they're overattaining so now people at the company are getting their meetings audited causing unnecessary meetings with upper level mangement. They're also getting rid of a lot of good SDRs right now for missing quota once. Policies at Motive are strict for getting put on a PIP compared to other companies. Somehow they're still firing people who aren't on PIPs and aren't creating fake meetings. Some territories are actually way hotter than others. Accounts are running out, so much that they got rid of the BDR position. AEs have really high turnover and to my knowledge there are only 2-3 AEs that have been promoted from SDR. The company is also slowly taking benefits away - insurance used to be free and lunch used to be catered by good restaurants but now it's some cheap alternative.

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Motive Response
1mo
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re sorry to hear your experience has not been a positive one. We take concerns around onboarding, enablement, and manager support seriously, particularly for early-career roles like SDRs. At Motive, we provide structured internal resources and enablement tools, including Glean and our Bridge program, designed to support onboarding and help sales team members ramp more effectively. In addition, we aim to ensure performance management processes are applied fairly and consistently, with appropriate feedback and support provided along the way. We appreciate you sharing this perspective.
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