Politics - Software Engineer Motive Employee Review

1.0
May 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good Engineers Enthusiastic Engineer Good product

Cons

Worst management Worst worklife balance Hire and fire culture Forced positive ratings

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Motive Response
2y
Thank you for your feedback. Your opinions matter, and help us to identify ways in which we can improve elements of the employee experience at Motive. With respect to PTO, to maintain a healthy work-life balance, we encourage team members to block time on their calendars for personal matters and utilize their PTO throughout the year to avoid potential burnout. If you would care to elaborate on your experience at Motive, please contact us at opendoor@gomotive.com so that we can learn more and address your concerns.

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1.0
Mar 6, 2026
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- great pay - decent benefits - unlimited PTO

Cons

I really think Motive is on the decline as a workplace. this was my first SDR job, the 4 week training was useless. Managers don't provide a lot of support. Our biggest competitor is basically equal to and almost better than Motive, so there's starting to be no point in targeting those accounts. The rest are old stubborn men that love their legacy systems. People are creating fake meetings to hit quota and/or look like they're overattaining so now people at the company are getting their meetings audited causing unnecessary meetings with upper level mangement. They're also getting rid of a lot of good SDRs right now for missing quota once. Policies at Motive are strict for getting put on a PIP compared to other companies. Somehow they're still firing people who aren't on PIPs and aren't creating fake meetings. Some territories are actually way hotter than others. Accounts are running out, so much that they got rid of the BDR position. AEs have really high turnover and to my knowledge there are only 2-3 AEs that have been promoted from SDR. The company is also slowly taking benefits away - insurance used to be free and lunch used to be catered by good restaurants but now it's some cheap alternative.

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Motive Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re sorry to hear your experience has not been a positive one. We take concerns around onboarding, enablement, and manager support seriously, particularly for early-career roles like SDRs. At Motive, we provide structured internal resources and enablement tools, including Glean and our Bridge program, designed to support onboarding and help sales team members ramp more effectively. In addition, we aim to ensure performance management processes are applied fairly and consistently, with appropriate feedback and support provided along the way. We appreciate you sharing this perspective.
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