This company is filled with Drama - Anonymous employee Smartsheet Employee Review

1.0
14 Sept 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Work life balance, free snacks and catering events, transparency throughout the company on how it's running, and what's coming up.

Cons

There is absolutely no checking behind management for accuracy. People can be fired because their teams do not like them personally. There's is little to no fact checking done from HR to validate the claims of performance are real. The HR team, though they say are always there to help, does nothing to actually try to absolve concerns. Everyone is so focused on growing the company that they have completely lost focus on existing people and boot them out for the next best thing.

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Smartsheet Response
8y
Thank you for your feedback. We’re glad you appreciated the organizational transparency at Smartsheet -- we agree it is vitally important for employees to feel connected to our mission and goals. We are not in a position to extend this same transparency to our team on individual employee performance issues because we consider them to be private. We’re sorry that your perception was that HR and management weren’t communicating or validating important personnel decisions. We believe that perception is largely the result of protecting individual right to privacy, not the absence of an evaluation process. Our HR team works closely with our staff and managers to provide direct guidance regarding performance, and management does not make employment decisions without review and input. --Kara Hamilton, VP of People Operations

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Smartsheet Response
1w
Thank you for your honesty. While we’re glad that you had a great team and the tools you needed, it’s incredibly tough to hear that other aspects of your experience were less than great. To your point about equity, we’d like to clarify that we do offer a limited equity pool with specific eligibility. That said, navigating transition is already tough, and adding in other aspects like global shifts and new leadership can make it feel even harder. We know the dust hasn’t completely settled, and we understand that we have a lot of work to do to repair employee trust and morale. We’ve set off on that journey, and we appreciate all of this feedback along the way. Thank you, and we wish you all the best in your next chapter.
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