Gainsight reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(719 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 719 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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719 reviews
1.0
Nov 9, 2023

What happened Gainsight??

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Pros

Some of the people there are truly kind individuals that embody the “human first” approach. These are the people that made Gainsight what it once was.

Cons

Where in the world is the balance of business strategy and caring about your employees? There has always been a grind, and most people were willing to work long hours for below standard pay because the culture and benefits made up for it. In recent years, Gainsight has changed their strategy to acquire companies/products rather than building internally. The issue with this is that there were no new jobs added for the integration of the acquired company into the broader Gainsight org. This means that numerous groups of people across the company have been added extra loads of work to their plate, such as integrating new teammates, merging systems, merging benefits, etc. The first time an acquisition happened with the PX product, numerous employees voiced their concerns for months and years about the challenges we still faced, including no overall ownership. Nothing changed, and instead we acquired more companies, had layoffs, and again, did not devote headcount to figure out how to manage the downstream effects of the merge. On top of all this, there have been promotion and salary freezes for years, with no end in sight. From my 8 years at Gainsight, it has lost what made it a special culture. The fun is gone, no one listens to the issues or cares to fix them, and the compensation has been well under average with no plans to fix this. The leaders in most areas are “yes” people, who have learned they can get further in their career by agreeing to the strategy and not questioning the impact or logistics this may cause their team. Gainsight is now just another software company that only cares about the bottom line.

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Gainsight Response
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First of all, thank you for this feedback. Even though it's never fun to read a constructive review, it's an incredible gift to us so we can get better. And the fact that you have moved on and still care shows so much about your character and caring. On your points overall, I think there is validity in terms of us needing to find a way forward in a very tough economy to balance the needs of teammates in terms of advancement/comp/balance/etc., clients in terms of outcomes and investors in terms of balanced profit and growth given the high interest rate environment. I don't claim to know the answer yet (or we would have already done it :) ) but I can say for sure this is the #1 thing on my mind. I hope in the future, you will feel we have made progress. I also wish you the best and hope your future gives you joy and pride. Thank you so much - seriously
5.0
Nov 6, 2023

Great place to work

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Pros

Work Life balance Top Management

Cons

I don't have any cons

5.0
Nov 1, 2023

Fantastic people, products, and culture

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Leadership team is humble, candid, and transparent. Products are strong market leaders and getting even better. Teammates are amazing humans who love serving their teammates and customers.

Cons

General growing pains from change that's needed to continue scaling and achieving bigger goals.

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