Work here only if you're desperate for a paycheck - Anonymous employee OneTrust Employee Review

2.0
May 6, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* Depending on your role, you can learn a lot from your coworkers. A lot of talented people work here. * Impressive product. * Good amount of PTO - 20 PTO days, 3 sick days + your birthday off * Close to Sandy Springs MARTA Station

Cons

* CEO is a loose canon and disrupts work he does not need to be involved in. * Every single employee, in every department is overworked. It makes collaborations across departments difficult. * They take advantage of the hard workers they employ. They’ve lost some of their best and brightest from unrealistic expectations. * Working from home is not an option, unless there is a special circumstance that you have to get approved. The CEO will often say it is an option during our monthly meetings, but we all know that is not the case. * CEO does not believe in the company participating in community service, as stated in an “Ask Me Anything” session. The photos of employees volunteering are the HR staff. I can only assume those were taken for social media. * If you’re interviewing, use the salaries on here as a base point, but ALWAYS ask for more. You WILL NOT get a chance to bump your salary up to be comparable with the rest of your team - no matter how many times they tell you otherwise. Negotiate, negotiate, negotiate!! * No respect for employee personal time. No work life balance. * Company does not do anything fun on a regular basis to keep morale up. CEO just wants you at your desk, working, 24/7. * No praise or reward for a job well done - no matter how big the win. * You’re surrounded by people who look miserable. * Before COVID, they were hiring 100 new people every month; turnover is very high. If this doesn’t tell you to run, I don’t know what will.

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OneTrust Response
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Thanks for providing feedback and for highlighting our talented staff and the quality you have recognized in our product. The two certainly don’t exist without each other. As a company defining an entirely new category of software, we understand that OneTrust can be a demanding environment. We are in an incredibly fast-growing market where our customers are under enormous pressure to meet hard deadlines for new regulations. We are inventing and building products from the ground up and all of this creates an incredibly exciting atmosphere, but also a challenging one at times. We are continuing to hire aggressively to give our team both a path for quick career progression as well as extra resources to share in the workload. Our company operates as a unit – one team, sharing the burden and helping each other out wherever possible. For example, when our US team was under pressure to meet the new CCPA regulation deadline, we flew in several UK teammates to help reduce the workload on the US team. Our environment creates a lot of excitement and opportunities for our broader team and we continue to find opportunities to help our employees balance their work and home lives. We have increased the number of vacation days across our global offices consistently every year including most recently a “Community Day” dedicated to diversity learning and engagement as a part of this initiative. We’ve had the opportunity to create 1,500 jobs in 10 global locations in under 4 years and as we continue to mature, we look forward to finding additional ways we can continue to give back and contribute to the broader community. Working and functioning as one team, the collaboration that an in-office environment has afforded us is invaluable. We firmly believe we would not be where we are today without building relationships in-person. We also firmly believe we wouldn’t be where we are today without our talented team. We have a very mature process for annual salary increases for employees as well as each team and an on-going “Spot Bonus” program to recognize teammates going above and beyond with instant recognition and generous financial rewards. Thank you again for your feedback!

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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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