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 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Weed out the complainers (and the whiny BDRs), outdated processes, and those who don’t get the big picture of where we are going.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

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

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

The company provides great benefits. 18 days of PTO, snacks throughout the office, good insurance, and free breakfast on Thursdays. If you keep your head down, thoughts and opinions to yourself, and obey management then you will have an easy time working as a business development representative here.

Advice to Management

This advice is specific to Biz Dev management. Find security in your decision making. Look at each communication to your subordinates as an opportunity to build a relationship focused around a "we are in this together" mentality rather than an "us vs. them" dynamic. You have hired a team that is 80% experience-hires; take their feedback as a learning opportunity instead of an affront. It's the only way to grow.

Pros

Good opportunity to advance if you manage to get yourself into one of the "cool kid" groups. Good company with a good product. Most prospects are excited as this is truly a solution to some of their most tedious work.

Advice to Management

Listen to your staff. Fix the stuff they complain about. If more people than not are complaining it is likely an issue that needs to be addressed. Hire good managers. Stop being like a frat house. Don't hire a bunch of recent college grads and then complain about their lack of work experience/candor.

The company asked it's employees to leave reviews... and you got what you asked for.... REAL REVIEWS. You guys CLEARLY still have the issue you did when I left... and are still doing nothing about it except blaming the victim.

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.