Sold on a different job that didn't exist - Senior Customer Success Manager ThoughtSpot Employee Review

1.0
May 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

High pay, great health insurance (most often prescriptions were free), great incentives for employees.

Cons

To start, onboarding was a disaster. My laptop was delivered a day after my first day, I had no access to core systems, and was placed on technical training with customers and partners which prevents the ability of employees to dive deeper into more specific use cases. Second, the department I was in was a total dumpster fire. No tiering of customers, no tiering of internal employees (senior v standard), and no minimum thresholds for customers to qualify for CSM coverage. I quickly learned I was paid so well because the technology often didn't work properly. Third, internal resources were spread across multiple applications, were often outdated, and the admins of the content were no longer at the company. Often times I was advising customers on outdated documentation. Fourth, turnover is incredibly high at every level. I knew of 2 senior leaders who left within 12 months of being hired due to the high disfunction and lack of direction from senior leadership. Fifth, leadership is close-minded to input and advice from individuals even though they preach "selfless excellence." I provided multiple solutions to help the internal team be more efficient and yet I was turned away and told that "it was in the works." Lastly, the company has no culture. Leaders in my department were uninspiring, unsupportive, and unreliable in setting up individual contributors for success. Whenever I asked for help, I was often given a half-assed answer and no real solution.

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ThoughtSpot Response
4y
I first want to thank you and everyone else who takes the time to write a review and provide feedback - open and honest feedback is important. As the innovative company in the analytics space (this is confirmed by Gartner as well as customers like Hulu, Snowflake and Wells Fargo among many others), ThouhtSpot has transformed itself from an on premise company to SaaS. Any transformation is a journey that presents challenges - however, as a company we have been very successful at not only managing through change but more importantly, providing tremendous learning and growth opportunities for those who decide to join us. ThoughtSpot is not designed to be in the comfort zone for everyone but our average tenure is actually above industry average. While our onboarding processes could be improved, we take pride in providing an open environment where customers, partners and employees can learn and participate together on all topics. We have a strong career ladder in place - built with guidance from individual contributors, your peers. Would like to end with a view from our customer event - we had over 1000 people attending our global customer conference, Beyond, in Las Vegas in May - while we are not perfect (and no company is) our vision is 100% validated by our customers.

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ThoughtSpot Response
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Hearing this from someone in Finance, where the work is demanding and the margin for error is small, genuinely means a lot. The fact that you're experiencing the culture as values-driven and not just values-stated is exactly what we're working hard to build. The pace is real and so is the opportunity, and we're glad that combination is landing as energizing rather than exhausting. Thanks for taking the time to share this.
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Good work life balance. Technical team is good

Cons

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ThoughtSpot Response
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Really glad the work-life balance and the technical team are working well for you — those are things we actively invest in and it's good to hear the signal is positive. On management direction: we hear you, and it's feedback we take seriously. We're in a phase of focused growth, and we know that can sometimes create ambiguity at the team level. We're working to tighten that alignment. If there's something specific that felt unclear, we'd genuinely welcome the conversation — reach out to people@thoughtspot.com.
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