Gainsight reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(718 total reviews)
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Chuck Ganapathi

86% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Gainsight has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 718 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Gainsight employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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718 reviews
4.0
Apr 15, 2025
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Pros

Gainsight has a genuinely caring and supportive culture — strong benefits for employees and their families, and leadership shows up for teammates during tough times. There are real opportunities to take on new challenges and grow your career, especially when new initiatives or acquisitions open up fresh areas of focus. Company events are some of the best in the industry — high energy, customer-focused, and great for morale. Many passionate, mission-driven teammates who care deeply about customers.

Cons

The product hasn’t kept up with the evolving market, and it often takes heroics to meet even basic customer needs. This puts a heavy burden on customer-facing teams, who are expected to deliver far beyond what’s scoped or supported. Acquisitions happen frequently, but it’s not always clear how the pieces fit together post-acquisition, which can lead to confusion and missed potential. In times of financial pressure, the company has historically deprioritized employee incentives and recognition, even as workloads increase. As the company has scaled, decision-making has slowed, and there’s noticeably more red tape.

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Gainsight Response
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Really appreciate this excellent input. So much resonates, and it's a reminder of what we need to focus on. On the product effort, I do think Customer Success Platforms take effort from both sides. What's amazing is how AI (eg Staircase or our native AI functionality) are not only reducing effort but also making people not have to do certain things at all. For example, traditional health scoring is a lot of effort (in any platform) due to the manual nature of rules-based scoring. The future of AI scoring is pretty exciting. But that doesn't take away from your feedback. On acquisitions, I hear you! I mentioned this in our all hands - we want to do even better with Skilljar. It does feel like the pieces are coming into place now - but I'm admittedly biased :) On the last one, I feel you - even I feel that way sometimes lol :) Def a big focus for us but also one I'd love input on. Appreciate you so much! Nick
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