High school mentality - Technology Consultant Qualtrics Employee Review

1.0
Aug 11, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great health benefits and great 401k match

Cons

Qualtrics is a company where you are only promoted, given raises, or good performance reviews if you are part of the popular group. It’s like high school all over again. If you aren’t in the popular groups, you are systematically eliminated. No matter how well your metrics are or how well your work is, if you aren’t popular, you’ll be gaslit to death. Anybody, even if they aren’t part of your team can submit “feedback” about you to your manager without your knowledge. This happened me countless times because I wasn’t willing to answer emails at 10pm on a Saturday and many other ambiguous accusations. I was told I wasn’t proactive. I was written up for absolutely no reason. When I asked my manager to give me 3 specific reasons why I was written up, his response was “it’s hard to define”. I got that same response when I asked for 3 specific things I can improve on. “It’s hard to define”. It was clearly a systematic way to either fire me or to make me want to quit. Essentially your “performance” reviews are arbitrary and they are based on how popular you are. C level executives also don’t care about you. During an all hands meeting, the chief people officer announced mandated return to office. She opened up the discussion for questions. When asked about employees that no longer live near an office, her response was “you either move back or we will just find new talent”. You are just a number at this company unless you are part of the cool or popular groups.

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5.0
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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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