Cruel for no reason - Systems Reliability Engineer ThoughtSpot Employee Review

2.0
Jan 15, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Healthcare was great, if you could find time to actually go use it. Big name, big logos.

Cons

Leadership issues, I've seen operations where there is a clear chain of command, and things get done. NOT HERE! At ThougthSpot the chain of command exists to take credit, and trick newbies into doing work outside the scope of their role. DEI is a joke, Customer facing teams get to be inclusive, engineering teams is a club you cannot join. Poor security culture for a platform that's supposed to handle customer's most valuable asset, their data... Poor record keeping, poor documentation leading to a lot of people just existing as knowledge brokers in the org, which I don't think should be a real job. Workplace bullying where everyone just kinda lets it happen, one of my managers screamed at me in front of my peers cause I questioned his logic.

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5.0
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Pros

Company going through hyper growth. Ability to change with market conditions. Company is building a culture based on values, commitment to success and it's employees. -Free lunch in office!!

Cons

As with any startup, there is a lot to do!! However, we have challenging and exciting opportunities to help customer solve their problems

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ThoughtSpot Response
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Hearing this from someone in Finance, where the work is demanding and the margin for error is small, genuinely means a lot. The fact that you're experiencing the culture as values-driven and not just values-stated is exactly what we're working hard to build. The pace is real and so is the opportunity, and we're glad that combination is landing as energizing rather than exhausting. Thanks for taking the time to share this.
2.0
Jun 17, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- good team members and peers in mid-senior management - flexible time off (sort of) - amazing product - great tools for building with AI

Cons

- burnout culture: "intensity" is a core value that plays out as burning people out, We've lost some good people over this. - when execs ask for feedback, and people are honest, they gaslight the folks giving feedback to minimize and dismiss the issues raised. - the week between Christmas and New Year's used to be company wide time off. Now it has to be approved by management. There were clearly some executives who wanted this to happen because they couldn't stand giving the whole team time off at once. See burnout comment above. - impulsive and reactive CEO. Fire drills every week that derail current projects. Downstream, we get harpooned by our direct C-level for not meeting deadlines. Other items have to be deprioritized in order to accommodate his urgent requests; there's no way around this.

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