Overworked and underpaid - Customer Success Manager (CSM) Cision Employee Review

2.0
11 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Work from home -People are good

Cons

-Fair bit of micro managing -High expectations of work volume that is closely monitored -Low pay for the market combined with the amount of work that is thrown at you is not worth it -Constant layoffs even for over performers -Many forced meetings to have pointless discussions and work on questions and scenarios that leadership assigns you

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5.0
30 Apr 2026
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Pros

Good environment and people, great benefits, interesting work.

Cons

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2.0
3 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Decent work life balance, some good teammates who care about each other and the company makes payroll on time (for most people)

Cons

The executives can’t stand each other and can’t make decisions, so the rest of us were left running in circles. Revenue has declined every year and it keeps getting worse. We had at least 4 layoffs a year and they never communicate them — one day your coworkers just don’t show up. Everyone is constantly looking over their shoulder. The best people have already left because they see the writing on the wall. The products aren’t good and aren’t getting better. They keep talking about Nexus but no one knows what it means or who even wants it. Numbers change depending on who’s presenting them and why. There’s no consistent story on targets internally, which makes it impossible to plan or prioritize anything. PE ownership and puppets in the C Suite meant that every decision gets filtered through “what does this look like for the exit” rather than what’s actually good for the business or the people in it. Compensation hasn’t kept up, especially after layoffs when your workload doubles and nothing changes in your paycheck. No real investment in development either. Bottom line: you’re a headcount, not a person. And they manage by spreadsheet not logic.

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