C3 AI reviews

3.0

42% would recommend to a friend

(822 total reviews)
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Thomas M. Siebel

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29% positive business outlook

C3 AI has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 822 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The C3 AI employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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822 reviews
1.0
Jul 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

1. Really good engineers. It's a shame their talent is going wasted at C3 AI. 2. Culture of learning. 3. If you're someone who wants to rest and vest, C3 is the place.

Cons

1. Egoistic Management who thinks they are the gods when it reality they know nothing about the product, leading to over promising and under deliverance. 2. C3 is the only company who is working from office right now, and the CEO does not care that he's jeopardizing the lives of so many people working in close proximity with Covid still ranging, as long as he makes money and keeps on dumping stocks. 3. Salary structure is poor, and you're likely to be stuck at the same base salary until you get a promotion and a meagerly hike. And then your base is going to increase at 2% after a promotion and when you bring it up, the whiny buggers will be like "But we gave you stocks!" 4. You have to be a Yes Man in order to survive. Don't like how some people run the company? You'll be asked to clear your desk. The management is so fragile that they're terrified of feedback from a new grad, unless you bend over. Sometimes it felt like working in a cult instead of a software company. 5. The CEO himself said that C3 is a services and not a software company. So if you're thinking you're coming to a Products based company, don't bother. 6. Their interview questions are way overhyped to give a sense that you're going to be doing awesome work, when in reality all you'll be doing is writing metadata. Just brush up on your leetcode and interview with the tons of other companies out there. You'll get your true salary's worth and a better package than C3. 7. There's a reason not many experienced engineers join this company. 8. TS himself once compared the death rates of Covid with car accidents and provided a logic where he said that just like you don't stop driving a car during accidents, you should come to office during Covid. If you want to work in a company run by this man and his cohorts, please feel free to do so.

1.0
Mar 5, 2017

Stepford Startup

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Free gym membership. Free gym membership. Free gym membership. Free gym membership. Free gym membership. Free gym membership. Free gym membership.

Cons

Like working in the Twilight Zone. Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and Ivy League zombies abound. The best and brightest move on within 13 months of start date. Only former Siebel employees, family members, or sycophants have stayed on.

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C3 AI Response
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We are sorry that C3 IoT was not a good intellectual and cultural fit for you. We take employee satisfaction and retention very seriously, and strive to hire the industry’s brightest minds and problem solvers. We are proud that our employee retention rates are at the high end of the technology industry. We wish you all the best in your future career.
3.0
Aug 12, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Brilliant employees. I was constantly impressed by the caliber of the individuals I had the pleasure of working with. - Plethora of opportunities to advance your career and take on new challenges. - Fascinating problems. The work was deeply interesting and and deeply rewarding to solve. - Good office perks (food, gym, etc). - Fun parties.

Cons

- Toxic executives. A constant "my way or the highway" attitude. Engineers estimate development would take a month? How about you make that take a week. You will work weekends to make this happen. - Very little work from home flexibility. One WFH day a week was very welcome, but we were obviously able to maintain a high level of performance when working from home during the peak of the pandemic, but that did not matter. The CEO wants people in the office. - The CEO. Tom definitely knows how to run a successful business, but the ways that he made that happen were terrifying at best and downright abusive at worst. Very dismissive of valid employee suggestions/feedback during company updates, unable to admit that he was wrong, and his direction for the company would shift with the slightest inkling of a new idea - often times failing in glorious displays of wasted engineering effort.

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