Good stocks - Anonymous employee ServiceNow Employee Review

4.0
19 Nov 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Strong overall company trajectory with solid year-over-year growth, giving employees confidence in long-term stability. • Healthy compensation and equity packages, especially for core product and engineering roles; stock performance has generally trended positively. • Large customer base and mature product ecosystem, which provides ample opportunities to work on impactful, widely used features. • Good resources and tooling that make it easier for teams to build, ship, and measure product performance. • Opportunities for internal mobility, allowing employees to explore different product lines or roles over time.

Cons

Bureaucracy can be heavy, with multiple layers of approvals slowing down decision-making. • Internal politics can influence prioritization, sometimes making cross-team collaboration challenging. • Large-scale legacy systems create technical debt that slows execution and increases dependency on platform teams. • Pace of innovation can feel uneven, with some orgs embracing new ideas faster than others. • Complex organizational structure sometimes makes it difficult to get clear ownership or alignment on multi-team initiatives.

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5.0
21 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice people, great pay, substantive projects, builds presentation and networking skills.

Cons

All virtual unless you are in a state with an active office, like California.

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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