All those Best Places to Work awards that ZoomInfo has? It was bought and paid for. Every employee I have interacted with has found this place to be, by far, the worst company they have ever worked for.
The DEI culture at ZoomInfo is all a facade. They do it so that they can make themselves appear to look like they care and make themselves look like the other big tech companies that put an emphasis on DEI. Every meeting they’ve had, especially the most recent Allyship training, was an absolute joke. The employees create these trainings so that they can look good to management. I am a BIPOC female myself and I have never felt so secluded and alone. The promotions (supposedly done by seniority) were given to colleagues with less experience than me. They will take money over everything, including taking on racist clients (yes, clients who made jokes about how the BLM protests and making racist remarks about the AAPI community) even after it was brought up to MULTIPLE VPs at the company.
I want to bring up one thing specifically, too. Those pictures of the employees on the banner, was the most racist thing I have ever experienced at this company. We all got a ping from HR asking some of us to be involved in an HR project (no context whatsoever) and asked us for our help. Didn’t know who was involved but blindly I said yes. I went down to the photo studio and saw that in line was every BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and female at ZoomInfo. They were using us to make themselves look diverse. I was never so offended in my life.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Breaks were never allowed (other than lunch) and forget about even calling out sick. They force you to find coverage for someone to take your place (which is completely illegal). They even started doing that with anything COVID related, they didn’t care how terrible the vaccine made you feel or if you were feeling symptoms, you had to work. Sometimes, it was just easier to come in, sick as a dog, than it was to call out sick.
Other things that I experienced there was Upper Management always found a way to scare us and instill fear into each one of the employees. Threats of losing our jobs, forcing us to work 10-12 hour days, forcing us to be on the phone all-day, and the CEO sending a threatening letter to everyone at the company that they need to work as hard as they can or leave.
The selfishness of this company is astounding. The c-level executives have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of stocks in the company. Right before we went public, only 50% of people got raises, most didn’t even get the standard raise of 2%. They also offered most employees very minimal (less than 100) stocks that vest over a few years. They are the greediest, most selfish people you could ever work for.
