BlackLine Reviews

Pros

- great culture and people
- head of business development was a great boss and mentor
- opportunity for career growth
- best product in market

Advice to Management

Keep up the good work in buiz dev!

Pros

-Good benefits package
-Product has largest market share
-Nice office
-Friendly and accepting environment
-Big budgets, still investing for growth
-New leaders give reason for optimism

Advice to Management

Focus on retaining talent and setting realistic goals to stem turnover and build a positive sales culture. Stability and enthusiasm will be more powerful in the end than setting people up to fail because of some model in a spreadsheet.

Pros

Generous, good culture, philanthropic. Corporate headquarters is in a beautiful facility. Casual dress. Good location

Advice to Management

Need to create more of an open-door policy with upper management.

Pros

good pay, flexible hours but you have to be there by the time set for the standup meeting for the team.

Advice to Management

why say something to those with eyes and ears closed

Pros

Don’t pay attention to the handful of bad BDR reviews on here. They are from the same complaining ‘bad apples’ in the BDR group (and we all know who you are). Your “complaints to HR” and lack of promotions should tell you that your whining is baseless and your lack of experience and/or general business acumen is exactly why you aren’t getting fast-tracked to the promotions you don’t deserve. Stop complaining about having to do work to earn your commissions and bonuses. You make the rest of us look bad. Just do your jobs or go look for something else if you hate it that much. When you act responsibly, demonstrate a solid work ethic, and aren’t trying to bad mouth management, then I think you’ll see the support you want and you'll earn the bonuses/commissions to get the promotions. Any other company would expect the same.

BlackLine has been growing rapidly and with any rocketing start-up environment, there are the typical growing pains. The Execs and Managers are all savvy to this and the problems get addressed right away and there are resources for us to do our jobs well. Also, as a growing environment there are opportunities to contribute by making recommendations on processes. There are also new career paths that are always opening.

Advice to Management

Weed out the complainers (and the whiny BDRs), outdated processes, and those who don’t get the big picture of where we are going. Cut out the cancers. You should spend the time, energy, and budget on what really counts- not just on the squeaky wheels. Some C-suite are a bit distant from the real day-to-day of the their teams.

Pros

This company is filled with people working towards a common goal. Everyone I've worked with is a hard worker and easy to get along with. The environment here is very positive. My favorite thing about this company is the willingness to learn and grow from everyone including top executives.

Advice to Management

Continue to listen to both your clients and your employees

Pros

Nothing- nothing at all- avoid this place.

Advice to Management

Clean house- sales organization is the most dysfunctional thing I have ever been part of- it is killing morale and several careers.

Pros

This company genuinely cares about it's customers and employees. It values hard work, creative problem solving and honest communication. While the company is growing fast, this is a company where you can really make a difference.

Advice to Management

Continue your focus on customer success, employee development and innovation.

Pros

A culture of teamwork, caring, service and respect is instilled from the top at BlackLine. Therese (CEO and Founder) genuinely cares about the employees. She encourages work/life balance. I respect and enjoy working with those around me. Therese also puts forth a customer-first culture, with service as her mantra. She is truly passionate about improving the lives of accountants everywhere by helping them automate typically mundane, repetitive, rote processes and freeing them up for more strategic, value-adding and fulfilling activities. She cares deeply about her employees and customers.

Advice to Management

Keep focusing on the customer and taking care of employees!

Pros

Good product. Good benefits. Lots of free food and snacks in the office and free breakfasts and Thursdays.

Advice to Management

This company could be a great place for young professionals to learn and grow their careers, but the constant churn will continue if you don't invest in their development, help set them up to grow within the organization or treat them with the same respect that management expects.