Awesome product, not so awesome everything else. - Account Executive OneTrust Employee Review

2.0
Jul 7, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

10/10 product, certain features basically sell themselves. They have NAILED the privacy market, it's impressive, and why I decided to join the company. Really strong coworkers, OneTrust hires ambitious, young, and motivated employees. Everyone is helpful. For someone in the first 0-3 years of their post-grad career, OneTrust will offer you a ton of experience. You can get involved in all kinds of projects.

Cons

Considering the strength of the product and position in the market, benefits and culture are severely lacking. This is especially so relative to typical successful SaaS startups. Management is extremely fast to react to product and competitive needs, but extremely slow about anything related to employee well being. They can, but they choose not to. This is why I decided to leave the company. Details: -Management is heavily focused on sales staff using scripts for demos and calls. Coming from solution-based enterprise sales, this made the meat of my OneTrust role feel more like call center work. Rigid. -Zero remote flexibility and all corporate travel has to occur outside of 8-5 work hours. Get home at 2am after a delayed flight visiting a client? They'll expect you back at your desk the next morning. -Commission is paid out quarters after deal is signed (and expect to have to chase down invoices and payment from your clients if you want that $) -Lots of discussion about equity, no path to get there. Looks like they've finally added a 401k plan in mid 2019, but this was "coming soon" back in early 2018. Comp plan changed often. -Sales staff is scared of management. It's not a sweatshop, but there's an unhealthy relationship. Perhaps I've just been fortunate to work in other positive environments under strong, personable mentors, but leadership here seems way more comfortable with low-touch high-churn than trying to selectively build out a long term team. Bottom line? This place is good if you're early in your career or just love GDPR. Otherwise, look elsewhere when the recruiter comes calling.

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OneTrust Response
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Thank you for your review. In regards to your comments about benefits, we are always working to improve our benefit offerings for our employees,. We have just recently launched our rich Maternity and Parental Leave policies as well as our 401(k) program! We listen to our employees, and our employee's well-being is extremely important to OneTrust. We continue to strive to improve the employee experience every day.

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Cons

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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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