Great product and people - Senior Software Engineer Podium Employee Review

4.0
Jun 2, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The leadership team, including Eric, is solid and honest about their mistakes. They're quick to change course when something isn't working, which I really appreciate. The product is great and getting better all the time - I'm genuinely excited about where the company is headed. The engineering culture is strong and collaborative. People care about doing good work, and we ship quality products. The company is all-in on AI, which shows up everywhere from our product to how we run things internally. Change is constant at Podium leadership doesn't hesitate to change direction when something isn't working, which keeps us moving fast.

Cons

The company has very high standards, which is both good and bad. While it pushes everyone to do their best work, there's basically no tolerance for poor performance, and people get let go very fast. I've seen some really good people get fired mostly due to bad timing or circumstances, which creates some anxiety amongst employees. Lately there's been more focus on metrics like lines of code and merge counts, which doesn't quite fit with our usually quality-focused engineering culture.

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5.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

Great pay, high performing culture and coaching

Cons

High pressure, some can’t handle it

3.0
Jul 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great coworkers, lower-middle management, product, PTO “unlimited” which isn’t true but does allow flexible usage, generous 2 days off for many holidays, and catered food ~3 times a month, regularly stocked fridge with energy drinks, soda, and water.

Cons

Top down leadership disconnected from sales and customer success team. Little coordinated efforts between nearly every department. Overhauled the pay structure Jan 2026, getting rid of the performance based promotion and pay scaling. Preventing OM’s from making the advertised 77k leading to many of us now stuck at 60k or 66k w/ a horrible annualized raise schedule (high performers not getting raises left waiting for potential raises that likely won’t come this year). Nearly nonexistent HR that is hard to get in communication with.

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