Growing Pains Minefield - Software Engineer Qualtrics Employee Review

2.0
May 29, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Fast growth means lots of room for career development - Reasonably good pay, great benefits and PTO - Lots of brilliant coworkers - Opportunities (sometimes involuntary) to wear a lot of hats - Post-startup culture means lots of flexibility... sometimes.

Cons

- Growing pains means lots of overcommitment on the part of management, paid off by "encouraged" unpaid overtime - Lots of junior hires without many mid-senior hires makes for nonexistent mentorship and a lot of terrible design/practice - Delivery and sales always prioritized over quality, operational integrity, or design - Heavy, pervasive culture of guilting and shaming of devs by management. You will be asked if you are a team player frequently, and rarely referred to as one.

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Qualtrics Response
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Thank you for your review and feedback. As a company that specializes in improving experiences, we appreciate your candor and suggestions for improvement. We know, as you stated, that growing as fast as we have as a company will present some growing pains. Feedback like yours is important as we scale our Engineering team -- it's how we learn! If you'd like, please reach out to me directly so that I can gain a deeper understanding of your concerns.

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3.0
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Pros

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Cons

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