Pros
- some genuinely kind, hard working employees - work life balance can be ok depending on your team - employee fund for office equipment/other wellness things - 401k matching but laughable at only $3k/yr
Cons
persado gratuitously hands out promotions/raises to management pet favorites – usually lifers that have been with the company 5+ years who have been with the company long enough to gladly take orders from leadership and have no viable prospects of working anywhere else). these employees will get 2-3 promotions per year while everyone else gets excuses. agree with previous reviewers – talented employees are fleeing this sinking ship quickly and those who haven’t fled should absolutely be looking with this company’s dismal financial outlook - clients continue to cut back their investment with persado. competition is becoming increasingly fierce and persado's product has not evolved to keep up due to mismanagement and egotistical leadership - see OpenAI. Company differentiator is years of established testing which will be absolutely neutered when Microsoft productizes OpenAi tech. the product is way too much work for end users and has no real stickiness and limited value. persado has an extremely bloated middle management layer full of do-nothing yes-men who bark at employees and offer the business no real value. perasdo over-hired across departments in 2021 only to lay people off months later but PLENTY of fat to chew odd remains. incredibly bloated customer service team – 15+ overpaid and VERY junior “directors” of customer success who would never be hired as ICs at a real SaaS company. couple this with an even more junior 'delivery' team who does the job CS should be doing. budget wasted into ‘onboarding’ customers into a platform that none of persasdo’s clients actually even use. Overstaffed customer success teams with conflicting responsibilities confuse clients. frequent re-orgs and constant changes of leadership and direction add fuel to the fire. as others mentioned, ceo and co-founder are abrasive, shady, arrogant and frequently belittle employees – frequent inappropriate comments and behavior in public forums and meetings. leadership has no real vision and constantly changes strategy and direction over and over again. persado hires the wrong people and fires them only to do it all over again. mid-level managers are inexperienced and have little to no training and are promoted into roles just because they've been with the company long enough and tow the company line. HR constantly gaslights employees. the company regurgitates their mission vision and values at every all hands but can't live up to any of them. Company wastes money on consultants for useless trainings or strategic direction because leadership has no vision.