Pays well, prepare to work - Account Executive OneTrust Employee Review

2.0
May 2, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Exciting market opportunity. Company is prepared for rapid growth. Salespeople will be paid well. Privacy is an up and coming market, largely because of the European GDPR regulations. All companies that do business with the EU, EU citizens (at home or abroad) are subject to GDPR regulations and fines, which is basically every company out there. OneTrust's product is excellent, and demonstrates brilliantly. They're thoroughly dominating their competition at TRUSTe and other start ups in the industry. On the sales side, you're often selling to privacy lawyers who have never bought software (or anything else) before. So there is a lot of coaching, education, and patience required as legal teams invest in technology and scrounge up budget they've never even thought about before.

Cons

Prepare to work. Work on weekends (and that's in the office on weekends). Work late in the evening. Forecast calls on Sunday at 4:00 pm before the Superbowl? Yep. Management has a tendency to scream when things go sideways. I have personally witnessed a fair amount of tears being shed and public humiliation of employees when sales cycles or partner relationships do not proceed at the pace and schedule management expects. You will not get an opportunity for any equity, which is reserved for the Chairmen, CEO, and Executive Management. "Equity is earned" is a common refrain told during the interview process. Then when you are successful, equity is to be discussed later during some future "moment of liquidity" when the company goes public or is sold. To be fair, the company's management treated senior and valuable people well during their previous market exit during the AirWatch sale to VMWare. Sales is expected to generate all their own leads, there is no BDR / SDR / lead generation program. Marketing spends a lot of money doing tradeshows and just expects those leads to convert. Not a lot of thought is put into marketing programs and lead generation in general.

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Pros

Good for parental leaves for both parents.

Cons

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1.0
Jul 10, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

Unfortunately there isn't anything worth highlighting. If you are actively interviewing at OneTrust, I would encourage you to carefully read through the reviews. There are several red flags that I wish I would have been aware of prior to joining.

Cons

- Unsustainable turnover and bad leadership: The CEO, CRO, CFO, and CTO abruptly quit shortly after I started. There is extremely high turnover across all teams (particularly in GTM). Favoritism runs rampant, especially with tenured leaders. - Lack of job security and stability: At the beginning of this year, several of my peers were impacted by a reduction in force. This unfortunately appears to be a common occurrence at the start of the fiscal year. OneTrust is a revolving door for top talent. - Poor compensation: The bonus pool was slashed a few weeks after being announced at a company all-hands. This money was allegedly invested elsewhere (unclear where though). There is no equity refresh for existing employees and merit increases were far and few between this year. - Lack of diversity: Despite being headquartered in Atlanta, there are no black c-suite members. The board has no female members. Diversity is limited at the most senior leadership levels.

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