No amount of benefits is worth living in this culture - Anonymous employee Observe (CA) Employee Review

2.0
23 Jun 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great wellness benefits - Great compensation packages

Cons

- Toxic micromanagement - Ego driven bureaucracy, only “yes men” will survive - Leadership assumes the worst out of their employees and spend the bulk of their time trying to affirm that assumption - Executive objectives get obscured in middle management leaving individual contributors constantly chasing vanity metrics and management trying to blame ICs for their inability to execute objectives - Enablement seeks to make new hires feel dumb instead of uplifting them. New hires are scared to speak in enablement sessions leaving a lot of questions being met with muted Zooms and when someone steps up to fill the awkward silence they are told that while they were 90% right, that 10% makes them completely wrong. - Sales people are treated like entry level SDRs: focus on vanity metrics and let leadership run your deal for you - There is no enterprise sales motion, this is mid market, SMB style of selling which makes it impossible to move up market.

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5.0
4 Apr 2026
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Pros

Good company good people good tech

Cons

Company is no more got acquired so strictly you can't work for this company anymore but you can work for the acquired business unit.

5.0
15 Jul 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Fast-paced environment that rewards grit, accountability, and initiative. Strong leadership vision — many execs have scaled companies like Snowflake and MongoDB, and it shows in how aggressively we're going after a massive market opportunity. Compensation is top-tier for those who deliver — high ceilings for earnings and career growth. Observe invests heavily in its platform and product — it’s not perfect, but the pace of innovation is real and customer feedback drives changes fast. Wellness benefits, comp, and GTM tools are solid. Yes, leadership is opinionated. Yes, expectations are high. But this is a company that rewards effort and outcomes. People who aren’t open to feedback or who resist accountability tend to struggle. This is not a place where you can “check the box” — you need to think like an owner and bring solutions. Some reviews here sound bitter, but it’s important to remember that not everyone thrives in every environment. There is room to succeed here — if you're coachable, focused, and ready to put in the work, you'll grow fast and be well rewarded. It takes two to tango: the company sets the bar, but it also invests heavily in helping those who show up with the right mindset.

Cons

Not a place for people looking to coast — expectations are high, and feedback can be direct. Some parts of the org are still maturing — enablement, process consistency, and alignment between departments could be tighter. It’s a scaling startup, so ambiguity and change are constants. If you prefer a stable, slow-paced environment, this likely isn’t for you.

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