Stay Away - Account Executive Smartsheet Employee Review

1.0
Sep 8, 2025
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Pros

They allow us to work from home

Cons

Smartsheet is the perfect case study in how to take a decent product and ruin it with toxic leadership and broken processes. The company pretends to be innovative, but behind the curtain it’s chaos: zero strategy, constant re-orgs, and leaders who are more concerned with protecting their egos than helping their teams succeed. Sales here is an endless hamster wheel. Quotas are laughably unrealistic, territories get sliced thinner every quarter, and reps are set up to fail so management can point fingers. If you enjoy being micromanaged, gaslit, and thrown under the bus while leadership collects bonuses, this is your dream job. Everyone else should run. The turnover is staggering. Talented people don’t last because they quickly realize the culture is built on fear, blame, and empty promises. Career growth is nonexistent unless you’re part of the inner circle of favoritism. HR and execs love to talk about “values” and “collaboration,” but it’s a façade to cover up the fact that they treat employees as disposable revenue machines

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Smartsheet Response
8mo
Thank you for taking the time to share detailed feedback. Over eight years, you’ve no doubt experienced a lot of change within Smartsheet. We're glad you value our flexible work model, and we take your feedback on leadership, culture, and processes very seriously. Creating a supportive and transparent work environment is a top priority, and we have a zero-tolerance policy for bullying or harassment. We encourage anyone who has any questions or comments related to this to reach out to their People Business Partner right away. To your other comments, we are focused on improving our internal communication, clarifying our strategic vision, and ensuring our sales organization has the resources and support it needs to succeed. We appreciate you sharing your perspective as it helps us continue to improve.

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Great collaborative environment and competitive

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We're so happy to hear that you're happy here! Collaboration with a healthy dose of competition is always great to hear, thank you for your review!
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Supportive of AI tooling. I had a great manager. I heard the severance packages are great, but I left of my own volition, so I don’t have personal experience.

Cons

Complete lack of direction or management at the mid to high levels of the company in product and engineering (most everyone left or was pushed out by cronyism from the private equity acquisition). No more equity offered to employees. No opportunities for promotion. They’ve shipped or are shipping most of the core products (including the core “sheet” aka Grid app) to India and have laid off tons of employees (somewhere between 12% and 15% of the company). Upper management did the thing where they had the US developers interview tons of people out of India, and then about half a year later laid off tons US developers, including several of the people that did the interviews. Upper management said that the India teams would be working on other projects, but clearly that was a lie. They laid off people without consulting their managers, or their manager’s managers, and without knowing what team they actually worked on or what they did. So entire teams were laid off unbeknownst to them. Very quick and poor handoffs to India, if any. You will likely be working on multiple teams at once, or moved to multiple teams during your time there in short periods of time. On-call can be a nightmare. There is no culture of any kind. Basically do not work here, whether you’re out of the US, India, or Bulgaria (the main countries for developers).

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Smartsheet Response
3w
Thank you for your honesty. While we’re glad that you had a great team and the tools you needed, it’s incredibly tough to hear that other aspects of your experience were less than great. To your point about equity, we’d like to clarify that we do offer a limited equity pool with specific eligibility. That said, navigating transition is already tough, and adding in other aspects like global shifts and new leadership can make it feel even harder. We know the dust hasn’t completely settled, and we understand that we have a lot of work to do to repair employee trust and morale. We’ve set off on that journey, and we appreciate all of this feedback along the way. Thank you, and we wish you all the best in your next chapter.
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