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Strong leadership, great culture, cool business in a growth industry - Anonymous employee ClassPass Employee Review

5.0
14 Jul 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Well-funded business with lots of interesting dynamics at play (monthly subscription model, two-sided marketplace) in a growing industry; as result, lots of interesting work to be done and great growth opportunities for employees - Strong executive-level leadership that exercises sound judgment in prioritizing resources and promotes a true "marketplace of ideas" intellectual culture where everyone is encouraged to debate/dissent and the best ideas win the day, regardless of where/who they came from - Optimal work culture for strong performers; you're expected to and will be rewarded for hard work, but you can generally set your own hours and take time off/work remotely when needed - Most people who work here are just genuinely nice people; I give the founders a ton of credit for generally hiring kind, non-toxic people in the early days of the company which proliferated over the years

Cons

- Mostly typical startup/growth stage company stuff; can be hard to feel like you're "on top" of everything given the sheer number of moving pieces at any one time, and there's so much to be done (in a good way!) that work can feel very consuming if you don't actively manage your own work-life balance

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

First and foremost, if you're a POC, you need to stay far away from this place. There is absolutely no diversity, and majority of the sales org, including the leaders, are white women. The managers lack skill, and don't know how to sell or manage. They only became managers because of their connections or because they were there in the early days of ClassPass and stayed long enough to get promoted. Nothing based on merit or skill. The sales culture is very churn and burn. The retention rate is so low, and this company is like a revolving door. You become a "veteran" or senior employee if you have worked there longer than 4 months. They have extremely unrealistic goals for the sales org, and the leads are awful. And it's because the company is terrible, and doesn't invest in partner services or support, so gyms and salons tend to have a bad experience because the resources and support they have for them are abysmal. Not to mention the bad reputation that ClassPass has; if you call a lead that has been called before, you will get extremely frustrated owners. They will tell you that ClassPass reps are harassing them by constantly calling, but that is what you are taught to do as a rep. To wrap it all up, there is no diversity, incompetent leaders, and bad reputation.

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