ThoughtSpot reviews

Just a horrible company culture. There are a lot of buzz principles flying around like "selfless excellence" but in reality it's excellence in mediocrity and politics. Often startups preach a fail often and early strategy...ThoughtSpot does this with people. Sometimes as soon as 1 month in, talks are happening about letting go a new hire. Granted if this were an isolated case it could be about the employee, but with multiple people clearly something else is going on. Some good leaders left and some others were let go. Beyond my personal opinion, just look at their actions. Recently the CEO did an interview on how to scale to a billion and he openly talked about replacing and changing out people for the different stages of growth...like he was talking about office furniture. Personal development and growth, or training weren't mentioned. Or just see how HR provides a stock answer on here to each negative review. It's ice cold.

- When I first started at ThoughtSpot, it was an amazing place to work. The management team actually stood by the values they promoted, encouraged work-life balance, wanted you to work hard AND be happy, but over time, the value the company brags about most, "Selfless Excellence" has transformed into a reason for you to forego your life outside of work, for the "greater good of the company." I understand working for a startup requires discipline, longer hours and extreme amounts of dedication to your job, but at what cost should that come? For some, there is no such thing as work-life balance (either by their choice or their manager's). And for those in a management position whose lives are their work, often that expectation is pushed onto their direct reports. - The company boasts of an unlimited vacation policy, but should you decide to use some of it, you are always expected to work during those days off and are reprimanded if you don't. Burnout from ThoughtSpot is a common occurrence across all departments. - The HR department is a joke. Who do you go to about issues in the workplace, when some of the issues are with HR? Pushing ideas on religion and hearing racist comments are things that no one in any company should have to deal with, much less from anyone in a management role. - It is made very clear that everyone is replaceable, which is true, but why should anyone devote all their time and energy to a company that doesn't care about the person behind the product they create or the service they provide?