Not what I signed up for - Customer Success Manager (CSM) Justworks Employee Review

1.0
5 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Team was full of bright, and hard working individuals that really made the day to day palatable. Interview was pretty straight forward and clear next steps were outlined after every round.

Cons

Micromanagement- From the top down pressure was put on the middle managers from senior managers that were so far removed from the chaos and volume of inbound inquiries. Managers would be huddle in a separate part of the office fraternizing while the IC's drowned in cases. The role was not strategic at all, most days were spent putting out fires and figuring out escalated insurance, payroll and technical inquires with little support. Everything was reactive and not data driven, which was not mentioned at all during the interview process. Office is deep in the financial district, Hybrid model was inflexible. If you couldn't make it to the office on one of the two designated anchor days, you would have to "make-up" that day on another day during the week or the following week. Bogus Pay wasn't close to market rate (specifically for someone like me with 6+ years and leadership experience) Role growth was stagnant

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5.0
5 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good work life balance and management.

Cons

Long hours sometimes, but generally a good experience

2.0
21 Mar 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good happy hour culture Comp for sales reps above industry norm for SMB Great marketing and brand

Cons

Look at the reviews before 2025 and look at them now. Look who was brought in since in leadership. There’s your answer. About a dozen people with ~7-10 years of tenure just left because it became unbearable. These are people leaving after getting promotions and big raises. Big red flag. The org is being run by someone who changes his mind every other week and copy and pastes “strategy” from ChatGPT. This person also constantly publicly undermines and insults managers and reps at team outings and in meetings. It’s extremely sad to see this former tech unicorn becoming a shell of itself. The worst part is senior leadership gaslights us when complaints are raised or the feedback on the engagement survey is terrible. I am unsure why C suite hasn’t stepped in to stop the bleeding. Alot of pandering about “whats changed and how great things are”. Longest tenured reps are fed leads under the table and emboldened to be toxic to more junior teammates, and snaking their leads away. The lack of professionalism here is astounding. This leads to cultural rot. The pay is good though especially once you hit 2+ years and have pipeline, so people stay with golden handcuffs. Half the managers are checked out and coasting, though there are definitely a small handful that truly care about their team and keep morale as high as possible. Look elsewhere.

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