Apps team lives in a deep well of Service Now. - Software Engineer ServiceNow Employee Review

3.0
20 Feb 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. People are very talented. 2. Highly enthusiastic people.

Cons

1. Apps teams are bugged heavily by customers, always one is in confusion on what to work on between development vs customer ticket. 2. Apps teams, especially managers should come out of the fantasy that world = service now 3. Apps teams are Bound by Platform which is using a technology that is outdated not today but a decade ago. 4. Platform offers a single hammer to solve all the problems (Some solutions offered by the platform are very illogical, it is very obvious to make you laugh). 5. If one customer comes with a request rate of several Thousand ~ millions of requests / minute, mark that is the end day for them to use Service Now. 6. Platform doesn't scale beyond a certain point, as it is bound to MySQL and heavy XML parsing.

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5.0
25 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- 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

Cons

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

2.0
17 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

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