Openly hostile to white men - Technical Writer ServiceNow Employee Review

3.0
19 Apr 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of autonomy, innovation, and the best tools.

Cons

There were people that didn’t do their roles and were 100% activists and DEI cheerleaders. The department was hostile to white men and promoted based off gender, race, and activism, showed favoritism to them, and ignored the people actually doing their jobs well. Lots of managers followed fringe progressive concepts making them their whole identity and subjecting everyone to this while dividing the culture. All strong employees left the company on my manager’s watch as he circled himself with weak people lacking competence. He himself was a weak leader and avoided anything that made him uncomfortable, which was a lot. Some great managers, some terrible. The culture is overall toxic in technical writing.

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5.0
25 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Great culture - Good pay - Leadership reasonability connected to employees (although recently it's changing for the worse) - Choose your growth pace: Great place to grow at a more relaxed pace or more frenetic pace

Cons

- Hard to get remote position nowadays - Could have better pay

2.0
17 June 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

ServiceNow had a differentiated platform and products. Early on the culture had a startup energy that was rare for a company this size collaborative teams, ownership, and a sense that people actually cared about outcomes. Working with large enterprise customers on complex workflows was interesting work.

Cons

The ServiceNow I joined was a different company. As headcount increased, so did the bureaucracy, layers, and friction that rewarded politics over execution. The layoffs of the last few years were handled poorly little transparency, inconsistent communication, and decisions that felt made far above with little thought for the people affected. The "cost optimization" messaging rang hollow against continued executive spending. For a company that sells workflow and people process tools, the irony of a chaotic RIF wasn't lost on anyone in the field or on customers. Leadership political dynamics were real. The right team, the right manager you had cover. Performance alone didn't protect you.

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