Ignore 5-Star Reviews - Anonymous employee ClickUp Employee Review

1.0
17 Jan 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Office was stocked with snacks and drinks, lunch provided once a week. - Still a somewhat small company, so there’s opportunity for growth if you're willing to center your life around the job and company. - You'll learn a lot because you'll have to.

Cons

- ZERO work-life balance, this place is a sweatshop. Forget about family, friends, or free time if you work here. - Frequent 14-16 hour days, 6-7 days a week. - Bare minimum benefits and PTO. - Expectation to work and respond to Slack messages, emails, and tasks even while out sick or on vacation. - High turnover due to burnout, unrealistic workloads, and generally poor organizational leadership. - Unorganized and impulsive environment that's often counterproductive and frustrating to work in. - Take the other 1-3 star reviews seriously, they're not exaggerating.

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ClickUp Response
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We're very appreciative of your feedback and it's disappointing to know your experience was not reflective of what we are building here at ClickUp. We are constantly looking for ways to improve our employee experience. For example, we now offer a flexible PTO program, a very competitive (and recently revamped) benefits package, and 401(k) options. We appreciate all that you have accomplished at ClickUp, and wish you the best on your next professional journey!

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1.0
28 May 2026
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Pros

The people. Talented people doing their best in an unstable environment.

Cons

Over 220 employees were laid off, not because the company was collapsing or employees failed at their jobs, but because leadership made a deliberate financial decision that treated people as expendable once they had served their purpose. People who helped scale the platform, support customers, and build the company were discarded the moment it became more profitable or convenient to do so. What makes this worse is that this has happened before. Employees were reassured it would never happen again. We were told we were valued. Many of us believed it. I had just celebrated being one of the most consistently valued members of my team before suddenly finding myself among the 220+ without jobs. The messaging afterward felt carefully curated to justify the decision publicly while avoiding the reality employees experienced internally. From the inside, it did not feel strategic. It felt cold, calculated, and completely disconnected from the people affected. And make no mistake, “220 employees” is not just a number on a spreadsheet. That is 220 people with families, rent, mortgages, children, responsibilities, and lives built around the expectation that dedication and performance meant something. If you work here, understand the risk. Performance will not protect you. Loyalty will not protect you. Being told you are indispensable will not protect you.

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