FiscalNote Business Development reviews

2.0

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(5 total reviews)

Tim Hwang

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5 reviews
2.0
Jan 3, 2026
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Pros

They provide you with a laptop.

Cons

Most people here couldn’t sell a burger at Burger King. Management is clueless and unqualified (a six grade classroom could lead better). Hard to find anyone to look up to and aspire to be like. Company is struggling (a lot) and it shows. Pay is a lot less than competitors. Didn’t always receive pay on time. Constant change and people leaving (entire departments and positions left unstaffed). Say they promote internally, but I only saw one or two people receive a promotion (and both struggled in their new roles). Quota is impossible to hit and no-one does, yet they don’t adjust it (less $ they have to pay their employees). Makes you feel disposable (even though it’s the product being sold that’s unpopular): easier to PIP, fire, and rehire. Unprofessional: most of the AE’s wear graphic tees on Zoom calls with customers. Office is falling apart and empty (about to be leased out). Internet stinks. Awkward work environment (feels uncomfortable and fake, like you’re in grade school). No connections. Stressed leaving two weeks notice, then told employees they had only a few days left once trying to put in their notice and do the right thing (struggling financially=can’t pay final two weeks). Anyone talented here leaves pretty quick.

1.0
Sep 22, 2020
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Pros

Some good benefits, a nice office, and a fun workforce

Cons

During an all-hands meeting, a C-suite executive made both an assault joke and a suicide joke (two different jokes). Nothing happened even after it was brought to the attention of HR. Uncompetitive salary. Uncompetitive 401k match. Lousy hiring/negotiating process. But the bigger issues are 1, that this is not a tech company. It's a BD department that sells SaaS, and that distinction informs how all departments function. Or don't. 2, the company is falling into the tech grift trope. Their singular focus is to go public, presumably offloading all their debt onto the public so that executives and investors can cash out. This means there is a focus on acquisition to boost revenue rather than good tech, sales and retention. FiscalNote started with a good idea and some impressive code and now they are a bloated company that owns competing platforms that are not interoperable.

3.0
Jul 29, 2020
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Pros

Talented and dedicated people. Truly innovative technology with an enthusiastic core client base. Great place to learn and grow, and you do have quite a bit of autonomy to do your job. Good benefits, industry-average compensation (not great, but not bad).

Cons

FiscalNote is overall a really innovative and talent-filled company, unfortunately if FN was in the "growing up" stage of its startup life before, now they are firmly in the "angsty teen trying to figure out who they are" startup stage and, tbh, it's not a good look. There seems to be an emphasis on getting revenue through the door "no matter what" rather than sustainable growth, which causes a rift between new sales and the other business units who get to clean up their mess after a sale has been closed. There's zero transparency with regard to product/company direction, having been told for the most part the same thing in different variations since the CQ acquisition with little tangible progress outside of some "nifty" new product features. Most departments are still being run by people who started with FN when the company was much smaller, and, unfortunately, it feels like relationships get in the way of holding certain employees accountable. Not to sound too cliche, but as a company that operates in a relationship driven industry, FN's greatest resource is it's employees and this is rarely recognized by leadership except for the occasional ra-ra speech when it feels like morale is getting low.

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