Terrible - Member of Technical Staff(MTS) ThoughtSpot Employee Review

1.0
5 Apr 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Not something I can think of. Especially if the company has moto "hire slow, fire fast" (No kidding). If you are lucky, team members will be good to work with. But in all cases your manager will suck with no or zero technical knowledge, keeping pushing for bug fixes low and quality features to win brownie points from upper management.

Cons

1. 80% of the time you will be fixing bugs. Mostly because they don't care about quality and push half baked code . 2. Annual firing during Feb to march. 2. May get 0% appraisal like many on the fresher last year. Even if the performance is good. 3. Will be working with managers who talk more but do nothing. Fake promises, no 1-1 . 4. Ready to sell souls if you want to get good feedback. They want robots not humans. Late night call till 11 PM with the US team. If you prefer WLB get ready to get fired in the next firing round which happens every year. 5. Just see the cash component as your final CTC. RSU is just fake money. The chances of going IPO is just zero. Also since I joined the price dropped from $22 to $6 dollar. Also there is no buyback option. Just be happy to see the money which might never get cashed.

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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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