Great product and people - Staff Software Engineer ThoughtSpot Employee Review

4.0
20 May 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The people I work with are really smart, and it makes you want to up your skills and knowledge. Everyone is very kind and helpful too, I'm yet to encounter a scenario where someone was unwilling to help even though they were busy themselves. The work is impactful and challenging. Most projects/features are pretty interesting to work on. Project backlog seems good. The product is great, and it feels good to see customers getting good value from it. Uber for Business benefit is pretty cool.

Cons

Sometimes there can be multiple escalations to deal with, not too frequent to be worrisome for now. Management seems to be too busy with projects that they don't get much time for career conversations or mentoring with reports. With everyone working from home, I feel a bit disconnected sometimes. It would be nice if managers can be proactive at facilitating social interactions among team members. Benefits at office are less now compared to pre-pandemic (pantry refrigerator isn't stocked, for instance).

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5.0
29 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Competitive salaries, supportive leadership, lunch stipend for those in office, decent benefits, embracing AI, truly trust in their employees, volunteer days, unlimited PTO, work life flexibility, positive and exciting culture. Honestly-- I like coming to work and I really enjoy the people I get to work with. Not a lot of my peers in my same function, but at different companies, can say that.

Cons

Can feel isolating as many of us are remote. Often only the sales team is allowed to incur travel.

2.0
17 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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