Mediocre company at best, steer clear - Anonymous employee Qualtrics Employee Review

2.0
May 16, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Massive sales machine. Open office concept. Relatively flat hierarchy, but absentee leadership. Take your dog and kids to work if you want. Most of my coworkers were pretty decent people.

Cons

Employees are disposable means to an end for this company. Every other company i've worked for treats it's employees better than Qualtrics. The main reason I left. I've worked for a handful of tech companies, and the culture at Qualtrics is terrible. Political and definitely not merit-based. Sales is slightly different because it's easy to measure performance, but problems are widespread everywhere else. Products are the buggiest I've sold. Company hired a lot of engineers recently, so the problem will get worse then will probably get better if they know what they're doing. The culture probably seems so terrible because leadership tries to make such a big deal about how good the culture is, while everyone is so tired of it. There are three types of employees at Qualtrics: the 8-10 who will make good $ from the IPO, 90% who are demoralized but can't leave because if they do they lose all their equity, and the smart ones who are walking out the door. Almost everyone I knew at Qualtrics was tired and hoping to leave asap. Save yourself the trouble. Also, I agree with the guy who wrote about the fake reviews - it's simple to see which reviews are real and those that are fake.

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5.0
May 15, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

Great benefits and resources available for their employees. In-office perks include catered lunches 3 days a week, 2 days with grub-hub credits, and free snacks and coffee daily; alongside office events and parties. There is a generally positive culture amongst the overall company.

Cons

Their actual company leadership does not always make the best decisions and rather than prioritizing root cause issues that impact both the customers and employees' daily work, they would rather prioritize shinier items that give the illusion of innovation. This will trickle down to the employees in the form of stressed deadlines, longer hours, and frustrated clients and/or frustrated teams you may work cross functionally with that are client facing. Your actual experience at qualtrics is largely based on what team/job function you are in and who your manager is. Additionally, there is a glaring diversity issue that remains unaddressed with no real effort to hire more underrepresented people of color, leading to the high turnover rate of underrepresented minorities who are not lucky enough to have great managers.

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