Poor experience with management. Uncertain product future. Some lovely people. - werkgeversreview Anonieme werknemer bij UpGuard

1,0
23 mrt 2021
Anonieme werknemer
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There are some great people in various departments. Marketing and product design is excellent.

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UpGuard has an employee tenure of 0.8 years according to LinkedIn. This is the lowest in the many fields it now designs products for. How then does it have a 5-star glass door rating? The obvious answer is people at UpGuard are writing many of these false reviews. If UpGuard is doing this, can you really trust them? If you are thinking of working here, do your research and understand the history of this company. I should have listened more to the existing and past staff - not just the people hiring me. Learn from my mistake and understand what their original investments were for, and what they do now. - Did you know a high percentage of its workforce was abruptly fired several years ago? Ask past staff about this. Ask UpGuard about it. - What has changed since then? -  Is leadership different? UpGuard is rapidly hiring. This time, with multiple product offerings but failing in the Forrester Wave. The market considers UpGuard to sub-par. They sell on price and marketing spin.- Does the balance sheet justify this employee growth? - What will happen to the new staff when the numbers catch-up? Think about this carefully, and listen to your instinct. Unfortunately for UpGuard, exaggerating numbers, logos, experience, and roadmap is their legacy.

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I must admit to being a little confused about this review, as all the points you raise have explanations that someone working for us would understand. For the record: * We have a low average tenure because we almost tripled in headcount over the past year. I would suggest turnover as a much more relevant statistic. Ours is incredibly low, which I'm sure you're aware of. * We chose not to participate in the Forrester Wave. * You're surrounded by the authors of the other reviews. Please ask around if you have an issue with their veracity. As for what happened to the company in 2017, there is background regarding this that we have never hidden from employees. It comes up - and we're open about it - in interviews as well, so to any prospective candidates reading this please do as this reviewer says and ask. I'm more than happy to give you the background myself. - Alan, Co-CEO

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5,0
5 feb 2026
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UpGuard has clearly put a lot of time and energy into ensuring an easy interviewing and onboarding process. While a lot of companies take drag you through 8-9-or sometimes 10 interviews, UpGuard's was relatively quick, but very painless. I always knew if I had a call coming the next week and the recruiter was always in constant communication with me giving me updates. UpGuard's onboarding is easily the best I've ever seen. My experiences in the past was maybe reading a document or two, a quick test, shadow, and then thrown to the wolves. UpGuard has taken a lot of time to create a proper training program. Every day you actually feel like you are leaving more knowledgeable and excited about the company and platform. Also, bonus points for how fun an enthusiastic everyone is on every team call.

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Can't think of any at the moment.

1,0
8 jun 2026
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Good benefits though you likely won’t be there long enough to use them

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During the interview you will be told that you can grow with the company. That as long as you’re coachable and highly driven you’ll have the space to learn and grow. I cannot even begin to go in to how poor the onboarding process is. It’s a joke. Management is vaping on important meetings while telling you how behind you are because you actually did the onboarding tasks. Only after you do them you’re told they weren’t mandatory. You’re then immediately expected to out perform people who have been in the job over two years which ofc is impossible and thus you’ll be let go. The company shared with me that they are in a transitional period when I came in and boy could I tell because not one process here was functional. The team as a whole was extremely behind. Basically it’s all promise and no execution which is just plain disappointing. Work at McDonald’s over this place.

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