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3.1

52% would recommend to a friend

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49% positive business outlook

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1.0
Mar 23, 2016

Sales review

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Pros

Easy-to-describe product. Lots of case studies and other sales collateral. Good healthcare and vision, decent dental, fair and understanding middle-management, lunches twice a week, weekly massages, matching 401k. Management is pretty flexible on work/life balance and doesn't micro-manage, which is nice.

Cons

They made the most common mistake in Silicon Valley: thinking that more sales people = more sales. See how that's working for Zenefits and a thousand other under-performing companies. Instead of creating a recurring lead generation machine, they've assigned their entire SDR team to qualify inbound leads. Instead of hiring more SDRs to do outbound lead generation by prospecting into new companies, management has doubled the size of the sales team and created two new teams out of thin air; none of which has nearly enough to do or enough leads to hit their quotas. They now expect their highest-paid employees to do the lowest-value work, which has achieved predictable results. Many reps had less than 20 demos in the entire first quarter! This has accomplished two things: lowered earnings per rep by more than 50% (nearly across the board) and caused employee morale to plummet. SDRs are desperate to hit numbers so they pass mediocre leads. AE's are desperate to hit numbers so they convert mediocre leads. If you're being hired for a sales role at UserTesting, do yourself a favor and ask to speak to a rep that was with the company prior to August 2015 to get a comparison of how things were and how they are now.

5.0
Mar 8, 2016
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Pros

The people here are nearly all passionate about what they do, and learning how to be the best they can be within that role. UserTesting is fast-paced work environment, but the culture and company benefits foster a positive work+life balance. What might be best about working at UserTesting is the level of autonomy and respect that is given to employees once they have been fully onboarded and proven they can do quality work. Hard work and demonstrations of intelligence do not go unnoticed here. On another note, I've been able to make contacts at a large amount of other companies by virtue of working as a consultant here.

Cons

We're not quite to the point of being a large, have-every-benefit-imaginable sort of company. That said, this isn't a huge drawback, just don't expect to liken our lunch room to those at Google and Facebook. In addition, the pay is a bit of a trade-off considering the same role (UX Researcher) at other companies is paid significantly more than those at UserTesting. However, this comes along with the opportunity to work with a massive amount of different projects, methodologies, and companies, so it seems to be worth it.

5.0
Mar 2, 2016

Fantastic Place to Work

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Pros

Food, massages, game nights, sports nights, awesome coworkers, education stipend, career development, career growth, caring management, recognition for great work, monthly Q&A with Execs, the list goes on.

Cons

Physical HQ space could use some improvements. Company culture disconnect between offices. Salary could be more competitive. Dramatic difference between team perk budgets.

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