Toxic culture, good business outlook - Anonymous employee Motive Employee Review

1.0
3 Oct 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

This organization’s culture parallels a cult - if you obey orders, sellout your values/ethics, and seek abuse - this place is perfect for you. From a business perspective, they will win. So if you are aren’t looking for career growth, but just want to keep your head down and simply do baseline work - foregoing all sense of self-identity or personality - the job might be right for you.

Cons

Tenure is the only valuable currency here. Blatantly racist, sexist, and homophobic/transphobic behaviors are swept under the carpet. Communications strategy is centered on “thoughts and prayers”, with zero commitment to improve. There is ZERO psychological safety here. It openly thrives on a culture of “impress or fired” mentality. After multiple RIFs, no one should act surprised when another one occurs, because they prefer it that way. Do not join if you’re looking for career stability. HR is rendered useless by a leadership team that proudly devalues its people by dehumanizing the person through a measured productivity transformation, so do not expect any support. People decisions are made inside a vacuum and are heavily biased. Tenured individuals suffer from Stockholm Syndrome-like behaviors from the cult-like culture, craving nothing but validation from their abusers. Whatever good culture they HAD (which tenured folks have no problem screaming loudly about) is long, long gone.

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Motive Response
2y
This is absolutely not the experience we want for you or any team members at Motive. We actively strive to provide an environment where team members feel valued and respected. Each of our managers is regularly trained on unconscious bias, inclusive leadership, anti-discrimination, and building trust and psychological safety on teams. Over the past year, we had to adjust our strategy to align with shifting markets. Motive is here as a resource so please don't hesitate to contact us at opendoor@gomotive.com to share additional thoughts and feedback.

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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.

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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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