Great leadership, Great culture - Product ThoughtSpot Employee Review

5.0
11 Dec 2020
Recommend
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Pros

The culture here is really good. People are respectful and helpful . There is a genuine selflessness to everyone’s actions. The management is top notch and they know what they are doing. Genuinely nice air about the company. It’s a great place no matter what stage of career you are at. A sense that anything audacious can be pulled off abounds here and drives everyone. Even though the company has been around for 8 years, it has still retained the startup spirit. All of this is due to the top notch Product and Sales leaders who are "maniacally" focused on not letting politics seep in to the company. and steering the ship into charted and uncharted territories. Recently the company started focusing on a fundamental pivot to being a SaaS company and the start of that journey was executed at great speed and with full commitment from everyone. What could take years in another company only took months here. Focus on diversity is great. Women get extra brownie points. Nothing wrong with that. Many are top notch at what they do, and from well-off backgrounds, having been well educated and having gone to the best of universities. Quotas and reservations for women in various things from speaking opportunities to 24x7 laudatory messages and an unconscious bias (and many a time a conscious bias) towards propping them up within the company from leadership. Do they require a leg-up ? Probably, and this is now the norm at most companies. In summary, it's a great time to be woman and ThoughtSpot is a great place to be a woman. Genuine well-intentioned efforts are being made to create a new utopian micro-culture to foster new social hierarchies. As a leader was reported saying recently in an answer to a question about what is the goal (KPI) for diversity. The answer: 100% (100% of what it wasn't said).

Cons

Other kinds of inclusiveness apart from gender diversity could better done.

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ThoughtSpot Response
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Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts with us. I'm so glad to hear that your experience at ThoughtSpot was such a positive one. It was great to see the recognition for how quickly and capably the company is handling the transition to SaaS. It has been amazing to be part of this transition! I would love to better understand your comments about Diversity and Inclusion. It is unclear to me what you mean when you say that women get "extra brownie points". At ThoughtSpot, we are committed to ensuring all employees have equal access to learning and growing their careers with us. We strive to ensure we treat all employees equitably and I struggle with your interpretation that more is being done to give them a "leg up". I would welcome a conversation with you about this topic if you'd be open to reaching out to me. I wish you all the best!

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Cons

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