Toxic Culture, Aggressive PIPs, and Growing Layoffs - Quality Assurance Engineer ServiceNow Employee Review

- Great culture - Good pay - Leadership reasonability connected to employees (although recently it's changing for the worse) - Choose your growth pace: Great place to grow at a more relaxed pace or more frenetic pace

- Hard to get remote position nowadays - Could have better pay

ServiceNow had a differentiated platform and products. Early on the culture had a startup energy that was rare for a company this size collaborative teams, ownership, and a sense that people actually cared about outcomes. Working with large enterprise customers on complex workflows was interesting work.

The ServiceNow I joined was a different company. As headcount increased, so did the bureaucracy, layers, and friction that rewarded politics over execution. The layoffs of the last few years were handled poorly little transparency, inconsistent communication, and decisions that felt made far above with little thought for the people affected. The "cost optimization" messaging rang hollow against continued executive spending. For a company that sells workflow and people process tools, the irony of a chaotic RIF wasn't lost on anyone in the field or on customers. Leadership political dynamics were real. The right team, the right manager you had cover. Performance alone didn't protect you.