ThoughtSpot reviews

3.8

70% would recommend to a friend

(452 total reviews)
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Ketan Karkhanis

79% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

ThoughtSpot has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 452 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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452 reviews
1.0
Mar 4, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Co workers are great. -Heath care for U.S workers is the best.

Cons

-No career growth , you will get a title change and they will tell everyone that you received promotion but nothing will change in your role. If you early in your career this is a good place to start and learn of something. If you are looking to grow your career not so much. -Hiring , they rather hire friends from the outside instead of promoting from within. It would be better for the company if they promoted from within and backfilled talent. -Toxic work environment, there are some bullies in the sales teams that will try to strong arm the technical teams to fix things or release things that are not ready yet. -Layoffs, layoffs anywhere are a bummer or downer but the company has seen two in the past two years. Why not just repurpose those individuals if possible to do other needed tasks. -Lack of diversity, culture, ethnicity and ideas seems to have gotten worse . People won’t always see eye to eye but it feels like if your ideas or suggestions go against what others are saying even if you are correct you will receive flack for it.

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ThoughtSpot Response
4y
Thank you for the candid feedback. We’re always striving to improve the experience for every Spotter, creating opportunities for growth, bringing on exceptional talent, all of which is in service of our mission of building a company of lasting value that's creating a more fact-driven world. We appreciate you sharing your experience and areas we can reflect and address. As always, if you'd ever like to discuss any of this further, please feel free to reach out to me.
1.0
May 8, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High pay, great health insurance (most often prescriptions were free), great incentives for employees.

Cons

To start, onboarding was a disaster. My laptop was delivered a day after my first day, I had no access to core systems, and was placed on technical training with customers and partners which prevents the ability of employees to dive deeper into more specific use cases. Second, the department I was in was a total dumpster fire. No tiering of customers, no tiering of internal employees (senior v standard), and no minimum thresholds for customers to qualify for CSM coverage. I quickly learned I was paid so well because the technology often didn't work properly. Third, internal resources were spread across multiple applications, were often outdated, and the admins of the content were no longer at the company. Often times I was advising customers on outdated documentation. Fourth, turnover is incredibly high at every level. I knew of 2 senior leaders who left within 12 months of being hired due to the high disfunction and lack of direction from senior leadership. Fifth, leadership is close-minded to input and advice from individuals even though they preach "selfless excellence." I provided multiple solutions to help the internal team be more efficient and yet I was turned away and told that "it was in the works." Lastly, the company has no culture. Leaders in my department were uninspiring, unsupportive, and unreliable in setting up individual contributors for success. Whenever I asked for help, I was often given a half-assed answer and no real solution.

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ThoughtSpot Response
4y
I first want to thank you and everyone else who takes the time to write a review and provide feedback - open and honest feedback is important. As the innovative company in the analytics space (this is confirmed by Gartner as well as customers like Hulu, Snowflake and Wells Fargo among many others), ThouhtSpot has transformed itself from an on premise company to SaaS. Any transformation is a journey that presents challenges - however, as a company we have been very successful at not only managing through change but more importantly, providing tremendous learning and growth opportunities for those who decide to join us. ThoughtSpot is not designed to be in the comfort zone for everyone but our average tenure is actually above industry average. While our onboarding processes could be improved, we take pride in providing an open environment where customers, partners and employees can learn and participate together on all topics. We have a strong career ladder in place - built with guidance from individual contributors, your peers. Would like to end with a view from our customer event - we had over 1000 people attending our global customer conference, Beyond, in Las Vegas in May - while we are not perfect (and no company is) our vision is 100% validated by our customers.
2.0
Jun 1, 2021

A grind.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Really smart people. Good mission statement. Good product.

Cons

The company lacks any long term vision, the strategy changes too fast to know if the changes worked. Everything is reactive and on fire, there is never time to actually put a cohesive plan together so the end product is jumbled and unclear. Instead of taking the time to hire a world class team, it seems like we just look around the room and pick someone internally. Leadership has created a culture of defensiveness, you can feel the pressure from your managers and if you question anything expect a justification instead of a conversation.

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