Smartsheet reviews

Used to be a pretty decent company, as little as 18 months ago. product / engineering management (note me not saying leadership) have turned into complete [profanity filter]'s There is 0% space for anything that the team suggests. All our work the past 12 months has been dictated by senior leadership directly. Do this, then this, then this. and do it this way, in this order, or else. We're saddled with mountains of BS from the US then given no chance to fix it, but we know it's not their fault, because the same is happening to those teams. People and entire teams we work with constantly disappear with no notice. Job security is week-to-week here, at best. Constant silent layoffs that aren't spoken about, constant forcing us to launch incomplete and broken features, and all the short term thinking and cost cutting stinks to high heaven of a private equity acquisition. The entire company has gone down the toilet over the last 18 months and no-one trusts a single word leadership says any more. Most of us are waiting for either a severance package or for the market to get better so we can find other jobs. My reason for posting another review is for people looking at job listings: DON'T APPLY HERE. I know the market is really bad, but you'll just work extremely long hours on maintaining broken rubbish you aren't allowed to fix properly and then probably get fired for someone even cheaper when we get bought out anyway.

Changes based on adaptation are totally expected and encouraged. They are what make companies great. What is happening now is not that. They are changes based on a series of poor decisions that are now compounding on each other. Looking for someone blame was not the Smartsheet way, it is now. Taking away the things that MADE Smartsheet special and different, and making it just like any other software company, was completely unnecessary. Many of us are now mourning what has happened, and a lot of us feel like we lost a family member. Smartsheet will go on, and will continue to do well, but we are not blind to the total disingenuous message delivered by leadership. "Reach out to HR or others"? no thank you. Last time someone asked a simple question about why things were done, they were berated for 30 minutes by the CTO. Politics and games were the opposite of what Smartsheet stood for, are now the norm, and are now permeating the organization. This is not a sour grapes situation, although I know that this review will be regarded as such. This is a fundamental shift away from what made Smartsheet the best company many of us have ever worked for, to just an average place. Good to go to work at, but not a place that we will want to work at forever, like it used to be. This is now another mediocre stop on the tech job train.