Freshworks Reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(3,044 total reviews)
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Dennis Woodside

45% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Freshworks has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 3,044 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Freshworks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
27 June 2023

Startup gone bad

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Pre-IPO work culture was collaborative and transparent

Cons

- An immature company with many goals and little strategy, even after going public - Numerous managers with little leadership skills - Lack of Product vision for ALL Products - Return to office policy

1.0
7 June 2023

Avoid at all costs

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Pros

Pros are some great people are working for the organization, and everyone is generally amiable. Some nice benefits for health insurance, but you're better off sourcing that yourself at a better price if you have a family. There is a commission guarantee for your two months out of training.

Cons

Where do I begin? The onboarding experience was terrible if you're remote and not based in India, death by PowerPoint with sometimes over 70 people on a session, so little opportunity to ask questions. Leadership is seriously lacking, especially in India and favoritism is rife. When I asked my direct manager for a regular 1:1, they said they did not do them. The first team meeting they ran, they simply screamed at their managers to do better with no suggestions for improvements. Every team meeting after that was exactly the same My direct manager was absent most of the time and would maybe speak with me directly a handful of times. When it came to my annual review, all the feedback was a surprise and it was the first time I was hearing it in the review meeting, so no opportunity to correct it. I would have to chase my manager for my quarterly review, and to date still have not had any feedback. Then is an aversion to performance management with reps being in the role underperforming for several months with no action taken, making it impossible to hit targets. Then when you are mandated to performance manage staff, there is no plan to replace them, so you carry ghost targets for the qtr, making it impossible to hit targets.

1.0
26 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Your colleagues are genuinely great people.

Cons

Hiring Onboarding & Training Internal process/Operations Management

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