Toxic Culture - Anonymous employee ThoughtSpot Employee Review

1.0
11 Apr 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits Good product, engineering, and opportunity to learn from those teams

Cons

Leadership and management needs an upgrade, several VPs and directors are just promoted due to the time spent in the company but does not possess the skills at that level, this ultimately leads to poor management, lack of knowledge, and biased decision making in terms of promotions/opportunities/terminations, etc. Even though it's a start-up leadership does not evaluate major decisions made at each org level, and the VPs, directors have full freedom to do as they please which often leads to favoritism, and unfair practices at org level. Used to have upward feedback, however if you say the truth you will be most certainly punished, the company has removed the upward feedback in recent times.

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5.0
29 Jun 2026
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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 Jun 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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