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Cornerstone OnDemand

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Cornerstone OnDemand reviews

3.2

51% would recommend to a friend

(1,964 total reviews)
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Himanshu Palsule

45% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Cornerstone OnDemand has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,964 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Cornerstone OnDemand employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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2K reviews
1.0
Apr 21, 2013

Software

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of young people - energetic environment. Catered lunch every Friday. Decent pay contrary to many reviews here. Lots of upward mobility (too much - see cons)

Cons

They are growing too fast - they have put TERRIBLE people in positions of power and make bad decisions as a result. All of the information is held in two or three people - there is no documentation of processes and the people who know what is actually going on are never available. Everything is highly political and there is lots of finger pointing. Training is done by watching videos. My lead didnt even know how most things worked. The existing codebase is a joke, datasets stuffed into sessions, forced workflows - terrible. They market to their existing employees as if we are customers. It's ridiculous.

4.0
Feb 28, 2013

VP

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

CSOD is flying to new heights, has a solid strategy, building out the right teams and has the best solutions in this space. As long as they continue down the social path, they will knock the others right out of contention.

Cons

Every growing company has issues and yes, they need more internal systems, processes and controls, but these are being review and added where needed.

2.0
Jan 11, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cornerstone's stock price is growing (and all employees get options), as is its marketshare. Financially, the company is in great shape and works with some of the world's biggest brands. Great internal mobility and growth opportunities abound if you're willing to put in the sweat equity. Lots of cross-functional and international exposure, too.

Cons

At Cornerstone, work is life, and there is no balance. The culture is very social, but to the point where almost every night or weekend is spent at some sort of mixer or co-worker function, and while not explicitly mandatory, you better be there. That is if you're not stuck at the office putting in another 80 hour work week. Management gives employees little or no direction and for an HR company, has absolutely no discipline behind things like internal promotions, performance reviews, career paths, etc. The workload and expectations are very similar to a start-up company (overwhelming), and CSOD is staffed like one, which is OK if you're still in early growth, but this is a 1.5 billion publicly traded company. Management rules by fear, internal politics and backstabbing are endemic and arbitrary, and employees are incredibly disengaged. Customers are also increasingly dissatisfied, which makes sense because they're sold a product that doesn't deliver on how its being sold. Sleek design can't hide its archaic code base, frequent bugs, and terrible customer service post-implementation.

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