Don't recommend - Anonymous employee Rockset Employee Review

I have the privilege of being the sales leader at Rockset and this feedback does not represent our company, culture or executive team. It’s disappointing to read when my experience has been first-class. I have 15+ years working at tech companies and I can tell you that a company this size does not triple revenue 2 years straight unless you have great leaders. The leadership team at Rockset possess a rare combination of drive, intelligence and empathy. The speed, energy and excitement of a startup isn't for everyone. Fortunately, for the vast majority of Rocksetters, we wouldn't want it any other way. Our sales team continues to sell because of company-wide efforts throughout the entire sales cycle and they have access to the most hands-on exec team that I have worked with. I've watched our executive team write code, join customer calls and clean our office kitchen - nothing is above or below them. Rockset continues to retain and attract top performers and is actively hiring. High NDR and renewal rate are complemented by headcount diligence that is resulting in an efficient and scalable GTM. Our sales org is accountable for our revenue function and is 2x+ the size of our product & marketing team. Our CPO's vision allows Rockset to skate to where the puck is going and our engineering team balances high innovation and performance. Pound for pound, this is the best concentration of engineering talent in the industry. If you check out LinkedIn, you'll see a workforce that is experienced and extremely talented. Being a CPO at any startup isn’t easy and fortunately, Rockset has one of the best. Our CPO is courageous, rolls up their sleeves and puts our people and our company first. If you are looking for a place to learn, earn and grow, I would highly recommend Rockset. ------------------------------- Second reply: Hi. I'm not the above author, but Glassdoor won't let me make a separate comment, so I'm going to edit-in my reply down here. I am Louis Brandy, the VP of Engineering at Rockset. I am always up for discussion, critique and criticism of how and why we are working on what we are working on, how we're making decisions, and so on. Half the fun of working at a place like this is having 15 things you'd love to do on the whiteboard and knowing you can do 5, and it means, inevitably, difficult decisions have to be made. If anyone who works here (or even if you don't!) feels the need to have this conversation with me, you know how to find me. This is very much part of the healthy conversation that we need to be having, all the time, as a growing business. … but ultimately these discussions need to be grounded in the facts and the reality of the situation. It's one thing for us to disagree about direction, or strategy, or priorities but it's a different thing altogether to just, well, not have the facts right. The marketing/product team is the most powerful? They hold the revenue functions? The team is large? As large as sales? What? As someone who works extremely closely with everyone "named" here, and who understands the situation on the ground, both the facts and the strategy, I felt compelled to sign up for this site just to post this. This reads to me like a witch-hunt & smear against a particular set of people and organization (not mine!), and in a way that is not only unjustified but made in bad faith. It makes me sad. Anyway, I'm going to go back to building now. If anyone who reads this wants to talk, you know how to find me.