Docusign reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(3,629 total reviews)
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Allan Thygesen

60% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Docusign has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,629 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Docusign employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4K reviews
2.0
Oct 11, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

RSUs, excellent customer success organization, amazing product. Great career starter for anyone under 30.

Cons

If you are a seasoned Account Manager, think twice before choosing DocuSign. Poor sales leadership, no training for managers, very young, very inexperienced. Toxic work culture for Account Managers. Management has created a shadow culture of favoritism, nepotism, and hostility against the rest. Management has no longitudinal view of their business. Everything is a scramble, everything is due yesterday. Account Managers have to smile, have "yes men" mentality, and are worked night and day. No real recognition or career pathing. Career discussions are merely a charade designed to target AMs who have low job satisfaction. Many AMs are treated poorly by their AE "partners", and AM leadership will not have your back. AMs are a "junk drawer" for the activities that AEs don't want to do. AEs and RVPs have all the power. AMs are not empowered, have responsibility for accounts/renewals/growth quota, but no authority, as the AEs are the relationship "owners". This creates an intrinsic conflict, and there are no ROEs or swim lanes. No deal desk, unrealistic quotas, book shuffle ever few months, which makes relationship development a challenge. I was told I would be managing 40 accounts when I started, at one point I had over 90. If you need help internally, good luck. "Everyone for themselves" mentality, instilled and reinforced by leadership. Fyi: employees are instructed and pushed to give Glassdoor reviews right out of the gate, before they've even really start the job.

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Docusign Response
6y
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We have shared your review with Sales Leadership. Please also let us know who is telling new hires to write reviews. It is not included in new hire onboarding and whenever we encourage employees to write reviews we always specifically point out that new hires should wait at least 6 months before writing a review so they can provide deeper insights so candidates learn more about our company. If you are not comfortable approaching me directly, please let your HR Business Partner know. They will respect your confidentiality.
1.0
Mar 6, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the most steller, hard working sales people I've seen in this industry. I've learned so much from the individual mentors that made this place amazing when they were still a young company.

Cons

Management. Lies. I was there when there was only about 70 employees. Things were real. People worked hard. Company flourished. New management settles in, culture shifts - HQ moves to SF, no one knows. Sales teams get decimated... and it goes on and on. So many good people were pushed out only to be replaced with a bunch of people with no relavant skills. Just buddies from previous companies parachuting in to ruin families. Personally, I try to give my two weeks notice and was simply pushed out - got ripped off in payment that was due. Etc. When you have former employees suing you, this clearly isn't the right place to be at. I've had people I don't even know find me and call me on my phone, long after I left. Literally crying about how unfair their manager was treating them. The product and some people are really hard working here, but all the politics and power struggle between the management team has ripped this place apart.

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Docusign Response
10y
A while has passed since you wrote this review. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and we hope you found your next great gig.
2.0
Feb 12, 2013

Big time fail.

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Pros

Some of the most talented salespeople in the industry. Great technology. Team oriented culture.

Cons

This is not a work-life balance company. Different teams within the same role have very different experiences. Micromanagement at it's worst, mandatory 50 hrs a week in the office and call stats reported daily. It's a boiler room mentality. Quotas are unachievable and keep going up. This is a whale hunting role not a transactional sales environment which takes at least a year to ramp up your pipeline. You need the big deals to hit your quota, but large opportunities get poached by Enterprise reps. Certain AE teams receive consistent leads, others fend for themselves and cold call to survive. Terrible morale and low compensation.

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Docusign Response
10y
I can't speak to the specifics of your comments as almost three years has passed since you wrote them. However, I think you would find that our sales and account management approach has been retooled since you were here as we have brought on seasoned sales management.
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