ZoomInfo is a boiler room that uses fear and intimidation over engagement and inspiration to motivate their employees. As other reviewers mentioned, there was a layoff at the beginning of the pandemic to set the tone for everyone that nothing is more important than work, and the company does not care what else is going on in the world. Employees are stressed out and the feedback internally is the company is “tone deaf”.
Revenue and stock price are all that matters at ZoomInfo. If you aren’t willing to sacrifice work/life balance you don’t belong here. For example, the company will advertise “unlimited vacation”, which sounds great. Then you get in the door and learn that the first and last week of every month are “blackout periods” where you can’t take time off, so there goes half the year. If you don’t hit your numbers every month, get ready to be put on plan; so really, don’t even think about taking time off. Not to mention that everyone there is overworked to begin with, so if you do take time off there is a guilt factor that someone else, who is already stretched beyond bandwidth, has to cover for you. Another example is the obnoxious, unproductive 8am “stand up” calls they insist upon, that serve no function other than to get you in front of your computer. You have kids homeschooling because of the pandemic and you need to make sure they’re off and running? Too bad. Get to work, slacker. Compassion is for losers.
Don’t be fooled by the cut-and-paste employer responses on all these negative posts saying how they care about improving employee engagement and prompting reviewers to email them at a general mailbox. The company breeds a culture of stress and fear so why would anyone send a critical email to a general mailbox? Should they just make the subject line “fire me”? Besides, these issues are not new – the negative reviews all say the same thing and stretch back over a year – read them all, you’ll see a theme. Clearly, these are not issues the company is willing or able to correct.
