Toxic Culture - Anonymous employee ThoughtSpot Employee Review

1.0
Apr 11, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits Good product, engineering, and opportunity to learn from those teams

Cons

Leadership and management needs an upgrade, several VPs and directors are just promoted due to the time spent in the company but does not possess the skills at that level, this ultimately leads to poor management, lack of knowledge, and biased decision making in terms of promotions/opportunities/terminations, etc. Even though it's a start-up leadership does not evaluate major decisions made at each org level, and the VPs, directors have full freedom to do as they please which often leads to favoritism, and unfair practices at org level. Used to have upward feedback, however if you say the truth you will be most certainly punished, the company has removed the upward feedback in recent times.

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ThoughtSpot Response
1mo
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

Management seem to be a bit lost.

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ThoughtSpot Response
2mo
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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