Smartsheet reviews

-Vet out the leadership on the team you are potentially joining. Ask the hard questions, because not all are created equal. -The company seems to be moving away from this idea of appreciating their employees through different acts of celebration. Sure, we have recognition awards for hitting expectations of our jobs, but "recognition is about results and appreciation is about who people are" (--Mike Robbins). There isn't an opportunity allowing us to feel as though we are truly appreciated - that all of the hard work every single person puts into our organization is 100% valued by our leaders. There's been this culture shift that has come with our growth and becoming a public company where, from the top down, the work you do feels thankless. Again, unless you have a direct manager/leader who knows and understands how to appreciate and recognize your work, you may not feel valued. -There has also been a shift within our company that feels as though we're turning into an organization that doesn't stop and ENJOY one another. It's all work and no play. Some people may appreciate that about a company; however, Kevin Carroll once wrote: "Play in the workplace is serious business" and "when humans are play deprived we become more depressed, fixed and rigid in our thinking, less resilient, more risk averse and isolated, more emotionally and physically burned out, and less able to thrive and survive."

Having said all of that, most of the people that made Smartsheet a success and a great company to work for are gone. Now people are being hired into the organization above the real movers and shakers , causing many of them to leave and killing the culture. I still talk to lots of friends there. All areas of Smartsheet are declining. The really smart people are leaving and the company has completely lost its culture, with boot-licking and back-stabbing becoming more common. This is across mostly engineering and support, but I hear rumors from every department.