Upside Business Travel Reviews

Pros

Dynamic and exciting environment where you work alongside an incredibly talented group of individuals. There are no unnecessary processes or politics to hold you back. Management is super supportive and encourages you to take chances and be resilient to failure. Everyone at the company is as equally nice as they are talented and driven. I love coming to work each day.

Cons

This isn’t a con, but be sure you are ready for the roller coaster of a start-up. Things change quickly and there will be challenging days. Maintaining a ruthless prioritization of your own time and communicating it to your teammates is key.

Advice to Management

Continue hiring the right people as we scale

Pros

Leadership gave me courage to perform my job. To me, good pay and unlimited PTO were not the best reasons to work there. It's the freedom I got from the company.

Cons

Not so easy to fit in the startup environment when came from the traditional office environment.

Advice to Management

Everyday treat your employees like your brothers and sisters and support them genuinely. And they will love their jobs.

Pros

Best co-workers around. Smart, engaging, enthusiastic, collaborative. Management values transparency and communicates early and often. While we go fast, we also take the time to self-reflect and optimize. Fantastic work environment if you're motivated.

Cons

Fast pace, might be overwhelming for some.

Pros

Health benefits are great Awesome company culture Very diverse

Cons

The extremely fast paced, high results driven environment isn't for the faint of heart.

Advice to Management

Always maintain the company culture!

Pros

- Extremely smart and driven co-workers - An amazing product built from the ground up using microservices and a state-of-the-art technology stack - Given ownership of problems immediately and no constraints for how to solve them - New office space in Thomas Circle is amazing

Cons

- Recent layoffs were a bit of shock, but were necessary for the company and product to move forward - In the old office, it was sometimes difficult to stay connected with various teams when the company was split on two floors, but the new office solves this problem

Advice to Management

- Keep laser focused on the product and what our customers are saying about it - Continue to be transparent and open about the direction of the company

Pros

Some great people work here and you build connections that are very genuine. For the most part no "office jerks" and everyone is willing to help you out. Willing to start at a higher than typical entry level salary,not much higher but it's something. (Also not certain if this is still the case).

Cons

Reviews are not always what they seem. They push for new employees to review Upside as soon as they join and strongly suggest we give 5 star ratings and nothing else. The Leadership is very disconnected, often times implying that if something is "wrong" the issue is not management, lack there of structure, etc. but in fact it is you and "aren't the right fit for Upside". Not very helpful. No constructive criticism, only...

Advice to Management

Manage. There isn't much of that going on and there needs to be an understanding that everyone is not like everyone else; some might love the laissez faire approach, but the methods practiced here are is a little extreme. Also practice what you preach. Transparent? O.K. Give us transparency. Otherwise strike it from being one of your pillars. Figure out what the Upside Culture really is and put it into place. Lastly hear...

Pros

Well, things were alright while they lasted. Everyone was drinking the Kool-Aid, and then... Bam. Half of the personnel were let go. Massive waste of time, and disappointment.

Cons

It all was a con.

Pros

-Amazing group of people. Incredibly talented team. -Competitive pay -Will give you a competitive edge in your career -President, COO/CFO and CTO are inspiring leaders. Some great people work here.

Cons

-Company is not doing well and many employees saw it coming. Leadership doesn't listen to constructive feedback. Anytime anyone has feedback on team collaboration, the product, environment, etc they are told that the problem is their own negativity. -CPO (People Officer) is completely tone deaf. Leadership doesn't realize the business problems caused because of her hostility and how difficult it can be to work with...

Advice to Management

-Listen to your people. Be open to criticism. It will benefit of the company.