I’ve been at Teleport for just over a year and my experience has been a stark contrast to some of the glowing reviews here.
The sales team is cliquey and siloed. Information gets hoarded rather than shared, and collaboration is largely surface-level. If you’re not part of the right social circle, you’ll find yourself left out of key conversations and credit for your work quietly absorbed by others. The “team over individual” messaging is repeated often, but the reality on the ground tells a different story.
Leadership in the HR org is where things get particularly frustrating. Coaching exists in theory, but in practice, certain employees receive significantly more face time, opportunity, and benefit of the doubt than others. Who gets developed and who gets managed out follows patterns that are hard to ignore, and HR has been notably unresponsive when concerns are raised informally. When responding formally HR can be aggressive, with the feedback process lacking consistency, and performance standards that seem to shift depending on who’s being evaluated.
At the company level, transparency is selective at best. Town halls feel scripted, difficult questions get deflected, and the gap between leadership’s narrative and employees’ lived experience is wide. Decisions get made behind closed doors and handed down with little context.
If you’re considering joining, pay close attention during interviews to who’s in the room, who’s been promoted recently, and how leadership responds when things go wrong. Culture is revealed in those details and not in the values printed on the website.