Avoid - Sales Freshworks Employee Review

1.0
18 Jul 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good products. Fantastic colleagues, diversity and office location - free food. You'll do ok, if you're in the clique.

Cons

Despite having 6k employees, Freshworks behaves like a 10 person start up. Rules are changed continually during the year, targets are changed every quarter. Accounts are continually reassigned every 6 months and this annoys customers greatly. FW seem to want to make it very difficult to achieve quota and make your salary. They brag about having $1B in cash in the bank but continue to fire employees at all locations - only to turn around 5 mins later to say they are hiring. Morale is low. Upper management are completely disconnected and living in their own world (their idea of a pep talk is to scream 'step up' into people's faces). Middle management are clueless, patronising micro managers who do nothing but laugh at you when you have issues. Billing and customer data behind the scenes is a complete mess. 99% of your time is spent doing admin, looking for contracts or battling the billing team (who are incompetent). Spreadsheets are gospel, until a new sheet is dropped on everyone with instructions to fill it in immediately. Very short term thinking, the culture is dying. Avoid.

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5.0
17 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good culture to work here,

Cons

Location is quite far, travel is tedious

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Freshworks Response
3mo
Thanks for the review--we think it's pretty fun here too! Best of luck on what's next.
2.0
14 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Mostly good salary/benefits - Nice office - Some decent coworkers

Cons

If you have to do mass layoffs of hundreds of employees every 18 months, leaders need to look in the mirror to find the true problem with the business. Because it's not the competent people that actually get things done that are being laid off with no warning and limited severance. Don't expect any job security here. Also: - Still behind on certain benefits (extremely limited 401k match and bad expense policies not in line with US standards) - Work life balance is hard with large teams in both India and the US - Some employees who have been here 10+ years are completely unresponsive and largely incompetent but still get raises, promotions, and aren't ever scrutinized by leadership. The politics game runs deep here.

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