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      ThoughtSpot

      Engaged Employer

      ThoughtSpot reviews

      3.7

      68% would recommend to a friend

      (458 total reviews)
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      Ketan Karkhanis

      74% approve of CEO

      60% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.6

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.4

      Senior management

      3.3

      Work/Life balance

      ThoughtSpot has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 458 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ThoughtSpot 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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      458 reviews
      3.0
      Dec 12, 2020

      Passionate Execs, poor management and engineering culture

      Member of technical staff
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Passionate founders - Meaningful product - Many smart engineers who are a pleasure to work with - Bleeding edge technologies in many aspects

      Cons

      - Lack of diversity (90% engineering staff are Indian males), recruiting efforts doesn’t help. - People who lack management skills being put i to middle managing roles on merit and seniority, not leadership ability. - Work life balance is non existent, many late nights and weekends. Especially hard during pandemic for employees who are parents. - Product team focusing more on adding features instead of fixing known issues and empathize on the core value feature, the search. - Lack flexibility in engineering culture. Engineers often has little say on what they want to work on. Managers just assign stuff without discussion.

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      ThoughtSpot Response
      5y
      Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts with us. We are always striving to improve our employee's experience and direct feedback from employees is essential to that. We are definitely focusing on how to expand our hiring efforts to invite a broader and more diverse pool of candidates. This will not happen over night, but we are committed to this effort. I am currently recruiting for a Global Talent Acquisition Leader who will help us on that journey. If you are at all open to connecting with me directly to discuss any of the other concerns you raised, I would love an opportunity to learn more from you. All the best to you!
      5.0
      Dec 11, 2020

      Great leadership, Great culture

      Product
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The culture here is really good. People are respectful and helpful . There is a genuine selflessness to everyone’s actions. The management is top notch and they know what they are doing. Genuinely nice air about the company. It’s a great place no matter what stage of career you are at. A sense that anything audacious can be pulled off abounds here and drives everyone. Even though the company has been around for 8 years, it has still retained the startup spirit. All of this is due to the top notch Product and Sales leaders who are "maniacally" focused on not letting politics seep in to the company. and steering the ship into charted and uncharted territories. Recently the company started focusing on a fundamental pivot to being a SaaS company and the start of that journey was executed at great speed and with full commitment from everyone. What could take years in another company only took months here. Focus on diversity is great. Women get extra brownie points. Nothing wrong with that. Many are top notch at what they do, and from well-off backgrounds, having been well educated and having gone to the best of universities. Quotas and reservations for women in various things from speaking opportunities to 24x7 laudatory messages and an unconscious bias (and many a time a conscious bias) towards propping them up within the company from leadership. Do they require a leg-up ? Probably, and this is now the norm at most companies. In summary, it's a great time to be woman and ThoughtSpot is a great place to be a woman. Genuine well-intentioned efforts are being made to create a new utopian micro-culture to foster new social hierarchies. As a leader was reported saying recently in an answer to a question about what is the goal (KPI) for diversity. The answer: 100% (100% of what it wasn't said).

      Cons

      Other kinds of inclusiveness apart from gender diversity could better done.

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      ThoughtSpot Response
      5y
      Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts with us. I'm so glad to hear that your experience at ThoughtSpot was such a positive one. It was great to see the recognition for how quickly and capably the company is handling the transition to SaaS. It has been amazing to be part of this transition! I would love to better understand your comments about Diversity and Inclusion. It is unclear to me what you mean when you say that women get "extra brownie points". At ThoughtSpot, we are committed to ensuring all employees have equal access to learning and growing their careers with us. We strive to ensure we treat all employees equitably and I struggle with your interpretation that more is being done to give them a "leg up". I would welcome a conversation with you about this topic if you'd be open to reaching out to me. I wish you all the best!
      5.0
      Dec 10, 2020

      Formal review

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Innovative, care about its employee

      Cons

      Nothing i know which is its demerit

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      ThoughtSpot Response
      5y
      Thank you for taking some time to share your thoughts. I'm glad to hear that your experience at ThoughtSpot has been positive and that one of your key take aways is how much the company cares for its employees. I also see this every day and am quite humbled by it!
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