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      Passionate Execs, poor management and engineering culture - Member Of Technical Staff ThoughtSpot Employee Review

      3.0
      12 Dec 2020
      Member of technical staff
      Recommend
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      Pros

      - Passionate founders - Meaningful product - Many smart engineers who are a pleasure to work with - Bleeding edge technologies in many aspects

      Cons

      - Lack of diversity (90% engineering staff are Indian males), recruiting efforts doesn’t help. - People who lack management skills being put i to middle managing roles on merit and seniority, not leadership ability. - Work life balance is non existent, many late nights and weekends. Especially hard during pandemic for employees who are parents. - Product team focusing more on adding features instead of fixing known issues and empathize on the core value feature, the search. - Lack flexibility in engineering culture. Engineers often has little say on what they want to work on. Managers just assign stuff without discussion.

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      ThoughtSpot Response
      5y
      Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts with us. We are always striving to improve our employee's experience and direct feedback from employees is essential to that. We are definitely focusing on how to expand our hiring efforts to invite a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. This will not happen over night, but we are committed to this effort. I am currently recruiting for a Global Talent Acquisition Leader who will help us on that journey. If you are at all open to connecting with me directly to discuss any of the other concerns you raised, I would love an opportunity to learn more from you. All the best to you!

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      5.0
      24 Apr 2026
      Finance director
      Recommend
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      Business outlook

      Pros

      Company going through hyper growth. Ability to change with market conditions. Company is building a culture based on values, commitment to success and it's employees. -Free lunch in office!!

      Cons

      As with any startup, there is a lot to do!! However, we have challenging and exciting opportunities to help customer solve their problems

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      ThoughtSpot Response
      1mo
      Hearing this from someone in Finance, where the work is demanding and the margin for error is small, genuinely means a lot. The fact that you're experiencing the culture as values-driven and not just values-stated is exactly what we're working hard to build. The pace is real and so is the opportunity, and we're glad that combination is landing as energizing rather than exhausting. Thanks for taking the time to share this.
      2.0
      17 June 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - good team members and peers in mid-senior management - flexible time off (sort of) - amazing product - great tools for building with AI

      Cons

      - burnout culture: "intensity" is a core value that plays out as burning people out, We've lost some good people over this. - when execs ask for feedback, and people are honest, they gaslight the folks giving feedback to minimize and dismiss the issues raised. - the week between Christmas and New Year's used to be company wide time off. Now it has to be approved by management. There were clearly some executives who wanted this to happen because they couldn't stand giving the whole team time off at once. See burnout comment above. - impulsive and reactive CEO. Fire drills every week that derail current projects. Downstream, we get harpooned by our direct C-level for not meeting deadlines. Other items have to be deprioritized in order to accommodate his urgent requests; there's no way around this.

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