They wrote their own ticket home - Anonymous employee UpGuard Employee Review

1.0
5 Dec 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

When the going was good this place was great. The culture, the teams, the vision, the product, the benefits – all of it was firing on all cylinders and it appeared as though it was the dream job. That’s because it was the dream job. The old office was small but it made us all closer and it was the best job you could have imagined. It was like going to work with your friends everyday working on an incredible product. We all hustled and believed in the company’s vision together but then....

Cons

The culture shifted when toxic people were hired and given the keys to the castle. Then a product pivot that no one was prepared for nor could sell happened. Then here came two rounds of layoffs, the last layoff included most of the company. Including almost all of the team that built the company from nothing. The dream was officially dead on arrival. But those toxic leaders remained untouched.

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5.0
5 Feb 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

UpGuard has clearly put a lot of time and energy into ensuring an easy interviewing and onboarding process. While a lot of companies take drag you through 8-9-or sometimes 10 interviews, UpGuard's was relatively quick, but very painless. I always knew if I had a call coming the next week and the recruiter was always in constant communication with me giving me updates. UpGuard's onboarding is easily the best I've ever seen. My experiences in the past was maybe reading a document or two, a quick test, shadow, and then thrown to the wolves. UpGuard has taken a lot of time to create a proper training program. Every day you actually feel like you are leaving more knowledgeable and excited about the company and platform. Also, bonus points for how fun an enthusiastic everyone is on every team call.

Cons

Can't think of any at the moment.

1.0
8 Jun 2026
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Pros

Good benefits though you likely won’t be there long enough to use them

Cons

During the interview you will be told that you can grow with the company. That as long as you’re coachable and highly driven you’ll have the space to learn and grow. I cannot even begin to go in to how poor the onboarding process is. It’s a joke. Management is vaping on important meetings while telling you how behind you are because you actually did the onboarding tasks. Only after you do them you’re told they weren’t mandatory. You’re then immediately expected to out perform people who have been in the job over two years which ofc is impossible and thus you’ll be let go. The company shared with me that they are in a transitional period when I came in and boy could I tell because not one process here was functional. The team as a whole was extremely behind. Basically it’s all promise and no execution which is just plain disappointing. Work at McDonald’s over this place.

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