Major culture shift with acquisition and new management - Anonymous employee Qlik Employee Review

2.0
28 July 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Used to be great, used to love going to work. The salary and work flexibility and other benefits were excellent. Great colleagues, good product, great company culture. Until the Talend acquisition and new management.

Cons

Everything started going downhill when Talend was acquired. It felt like Talend acquired Qlik and not the other way round. Managerial roles were given to Talend staff, the culture and way of working shifted a lot for the worse. It got even worse when new senior management came to town, the original Qlik values disappeared, the flexibility got very limited, the workload skyrocketed, it became unbearable to work there. People started disengaging and leaving, everybody sees it, everybody knows what is happening but nobody cares.

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Qlik Response
11mo
Thank you for your review and for your continued contributions here at Qlik. Your advice to Management has been passed on to SLT, to enable us to improve our employee experience for all Qlikkies. Best regards, Qlik - Culture and Talent Team

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Transparency, work/life balance, everyone here is treated as an adult, autonomy, benefits are great for the USA, people here are very intelligent, kind, honest, and hardworking.

Cons

Corporate bonuses are only paid to director level and above. I wish some sort of bonus was paid to everyone.

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Thank you for your review and so glad to hear you’re enjoying your experience here - thank you for your contributions to making Qlik such a great place to work. Best regards, Qlik – Culture and Talent Team
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The people you meet at Qlik are one of a kind. Truly amazing, dedicated, supportive people. Whether that be the Demand Center leadership, your peers, or the sales managers. The culture here is phenomenal!

Cons

Too many changes, every year or sometimes even couple of months, you have new managers and a new territory. It’s hard to get a handle of it coming from one industry and training to another. The pay is low compared to other SDR/BDR roles in the industry. No fault to the managers on the BDR team, but the senior leadership tends to care more about activity volume on top of quota. You could hit your quota by 110% and they’ll still ask you to get 100s of calls in a day. The company has also lost the plot on product. Qlik Sense is an amazing analytics tool. If they doubled down on their analytics and made it truly in the cloud and low code/no code, they’d have better results.

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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We value employee feedback, and your comments will be shared with Senior Sales/GTM Leadership as part of our ongoing efforts to improve the employee experience. Best regards, Qlik – Culture and Talent Team
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