UserTesting reviews

3.1

52% would recommend to a friend

(576 total reviews)
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Eric Johnson

57% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

UserTesting has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 576 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UserTesting employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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576 reviews
1.0
Feb 22, 2021
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

You'll be given nice swag. Your first 6 months should be OK.

Cons

Managers are close friends, previous coworkers, or related so be very careful about giving feedback. Promotions are given to favorites. There is very high turnover and they do not put people on a plan or provide any warnings. Territories are not equally distributed. While I was there I saw two people get fired and a manager's friend/family member was given the role. It is extremely clickish. They didn't have HR at my time there and I wish I reported a few people for inappropriate comments and behavior.

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UserTesting Response
5y
Hi there. I wonder how long ago you worked at UT? In 2018, I began building the People team and we are now 28 people across all orgs and locations. I can't think of any example in the last 2+ years of a friend or family member taking a role to replace someone. Our current turnover rate is 13% -- which is well below the average rate for a private growth tech company and the Sales turnover is quite a bit lower. Sales is our happiest group in our annual surveys and the Sales team regularly reviews each member of the team regarding their performance, so the warnings are very regular if someone isn't performing. If you'd like to share more, I'd love to hear. You likely recall the company email and can ping me there and I am happy to talk and hopefully can help.
1.0
Sep 16, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- A lot of the people you will work with are really smart - In many roles you have a lot of autonomy and flexibility to complete your work - A lot of the executives are really smart and trying really hard to make sure their teams succeed

Cons

- There are a lot of really smart, but unproductive people at the company who talk a lot, but never produce any results. It mostly just means a lot of meetings that never result in anything. - None of the departments talk to one another or are on the same page about where the company is going as a whole. This difficulty was further exasperated by a particular executive who is no longer with the company who led half of the company in the opposite direction of everyone else. While upper management is trying to resolve this issue, it will likely take a year or two for us to agree on where we are going and get back on the same page. In the meantime, we're all floundering. A lot of vision is needed to overcome this issue and historically, we aren't very good on defining a company vision. - No one seems clear on what are cultures or values are. We've made a list of company values, but they are so broad and vague that they don't really mean anything. As a result, most of the company just prioritizes being nice to each other (which comes with a huge set of problems where no one gets anything done because they are all too busy being "nice" and therefore don't give feedback or discuss areas of improvement for the company). - We have the most convoluted org chart, to the point that it hinders everyone's abilities to get work done. Inaccurate titles and unclear responsibilities mean that you go to 1 employee to solve a challenge, only to discover that they aren't responsible for the work that their job description/title implies. So no one knows who to work with or go to in order to get things done.

2.0
Jan 7, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Product, product, product, product, learning.

Cons

The company presents the numbers of Regrettable and Non-Regrettable employee turnover at All-hands meetings. What feels good about working for a company that places an emphasis on how little they regret the firings they have made? ... In a pandemic no less. Like most tech start ups, you will do especially well if you are a white male. Women are referred to during company sales team meetings in derogatory and mysogynistic ways (referring to our customers). Company focuses on "culture fit" meaning, if you look like and speak like the leadership team, you will fit. If you look different or have a unique perspective, you will struggle. Lots of mixed messaging around supporting Black Lives Matters, but don't talk about politics or your preferred candidate. BLM, unless you earn over $400,000...

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UserTesting Response
5y
Sounds like we need to do better in our messaging on turnover, although Andy does explain why we use those measures when we discuss them. It would be ideal if everyone fit and our hiring were perfect, but that's not realistic. What we feel we do well is communicate with people that things aren't working out. The best outcome for everyone is that people opt out and find a new role with little disruption to their lives and with their heads high. While this turnover isn't regrettable, we wish the people that leave us the best future possible and help them get to their next place. Our discussions around culture fit focus heavily on our value of "Be Kind" and as we scale, it becomes more and more important not to bring jerks, politicos, and ladder-climbers onto the team -- that's the culture fit that is important. I'm wondering what mixed messaging you have noticed around our diversity and inclusion efforts? We're proud to be 44% women worldwide and 16% underrepresented in the U.S. With the addition of our head of inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging recently, and the creation of the diversity recruiting program, we're trying to accelerate our progress and become an example for other software companies. We encourage you to bring your point of view and join us to help in our focus on making this a company that reflects the communities around us.
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