Qualtrics reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(2,603 total reviews)
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Jason Maynard

43% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Qualtrics has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,603 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Qualtrics 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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1.0
Sep 15, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

-Free cafeteria-quality food in office (if you're standing in line early enough) -The company seems to be doing well

Cons

-Among the worst corporate culture in tech. From top to bottom, the Seattle office is filled with ex-Amazon managers. They brought over the toxic culture rewarding backstabbing engineers, management driven by short-term metrics, and abysmal work-life balance -Inexperienced people managers with no management aptitude -Experienced manager with no management aptitude (i.e. micromanaging directors)

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Qualtrics Response
7y
We appreciate your review and your advice. We do understand this is your perspective and would love to understand more about where this experience is... It does look like you are a former employee so normally we would encourage you to reach out internally so we can adjust your situation and evolve to improve it. Please feel free to reach out to our recruiting or people ops as we are always looking to improve and certainly do not want a toxic culture for anyone or from anyone's perspective.
3.0
Jun 22, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, great learning experience

Cons

This will be from the lens of someone in sales (lower tier Account Executive): 1) What happens when you have success and you are really cheap? You promote from within. Make sure to label it as a ‘strength’ though versus a weakness. This is something Qualtrics has excelled at on multiple accounts. Sometimes promoting from within can be great. If you are in a static market, it makes sense. There is little change in the everyday business and sales process. However, if you are in a startup environment where everything is constantly changing, you're setting yourself up for a bad time. That bad time is in full effect right now. These homegrown legacy sales managers and region leads have no idea what or why the customers of today are purchasing Qualtrics (especially as it relates to SMB, Mid-). To sum it up, their mindset is outdated. This is more than a problem. These same individuals are the people who are doing ALL of the training. I would love a competent leader from an outside organization to sit in on one of these sessions. I do not remember the last training that was well received. It’s comical at this point. This communication gap needs to be resolved. 2) Attrition is high. Not sorta high - I mean extremely high. Out of a group of 9 or 10 sales reps on my team from when I started, only two of the are left. Also, two of the most tenured reps in the company have also left in the last few months, too. This is caused by many different factors, namely 1) account allocation 2) hiring too many quota carriers and 3) data in our CRM. The only individuals who hit are ones who either got really lucky with account allocation or the reps who have been here for eons and have great accounts. While leadership says that they don’t care if attrition is high as long as their ‘best’ reps stay, that’s unproductive. The only way someone gets promoted is if they have a solid territory. The problem is that these territories are divided up arbitrarily. I've seen so much potential talent walk out that door because of unfair circumstances. But wait, am I just making excuses? I don' know - ask the 75% of the software sales team that didn't hit their quota.

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Qualtrics Response
8y
We value your feedback and appreciate you taking the time to share. As the company continues to grow and evolve, so do our training, recruiting, and promotion processes. Over the past 12 months, we have significantly increased the professional development budget for sales and are continuing to iterate our trainings based on regular employee feedback. Regarding recruiting and promotion, we are always looking for the best candidates wherever we find them. For example, we recently named two new enterprise leads -- one hired externally from a Fortune 100 software company and the other promoted from within Qualtrics. Again, thanks for your feedback- we’re always working to raise Q’s talent bar!
2.0
Feb 5, 2024

Qualtrics USED to be Great

Recommend
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Pros

This review is tough to write. If you asked me over 2 years ago I would have written a 5 star review. Majority of people that work at Qualtrics are incredible. I met some of the greatest people at my time at Qualtrics. I also had a fantastic experience with my managers, incredibly supportive and overall I loved the work that I was doing. The money was also good if you work hard and hit your numbers.

Cons

It is funny because Qualtrics is an experience management company and claims to be so transparent, however they DO NOT practice what they preach. The C-Suite and upper management does not care about the people that work under them. As long as they are putting more money in their pockets they do not care that they are eliminating hundreds of jobs. 2 huge layoffs in one year with more to come. Zig reads off a script to tell hundreds of people that they don't have a job anymore. They do not listen to their employees. You can be a top performer and still not have job security. If you have an LDS manager and you are not LDS, your LDS teammates will get favored (this happens frequently). Being acquired by PE only benefitted upper management and everyone knows it. Don't work here if you value job security.

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