UserTesting reviews

3.2

55% would recommend to a friend

(577 total reviews)
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Eric Johnson

61% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

UserTesting has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 577 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UserTesting 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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577 reviews
1.0
May 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Great if you're an engineer. For a while we're almost a protected species. Until you form an opinion that is different from your manager's. - Decent package although on the lower end of the market. - User Testing is a prime example of a startup that had a good culture that got steam-rolled by the IPO.

Cons

- The only thing saving User Testing is it's sales team and the current lack of alternatives. The product is a mess held together by duct tape. - Product and engineering leadership is questionable to say the least. It is riddled with politics, cliques, unethical management of employees and terrible, and far from transparent practices, adept at reinventing things that shouldn't be. - Burnout is rampant and there is a revolving door of joiners and leavers. - WARNING: You will be fired for NO GOOD reason. It happened more often than it should. Often for reasons that are less than adequate. Fairness and ethics is not a value User Testing cares about. HR is not there to support you. They are there to protect the company and their executives (their bosses). You are not considered. If you are fired, they won't care or ask about your side of the story. There is no warm up to the firing. No "hey, we see you're not doing what we need you to do, so here's a performance improvement plan". You will just be cut. Many women, black, asian, and other underrepresented employees left because of the toxic way User Testing operates and treats their employees. There was even an employee led "IDEB Group" to help the company improve. I was in this group. HR and executives did not care that morale was dropping even though we gave extra time out of our day to support their improvement. Stay away from them if you can. Now that they are public and become more and more of a machine, it's only going to get worse and you will be ingested and spat out like no one cares.

2.0
Jun 20, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

UserTesting is awesome because they make a great product and the c-level executives are brilliant. The company culture is fun and relaxed. For most roles you can set your own hours, have a lot of authority over your projects, and there are adorable dogs!

Cons

There is a huge disconnect between the brilliant people and ideas in the c-level suite and the reality of the day to day, largely because no one is communicating effectively (and this disconnect only gets broadened because of a few bad apples in upper management). There is terrible communication between departments and (depending on your department) terrible communication within your department. No one is on the same page about what direction we are headed (or how we are going to get there), which results in a lot business politics because you have to cater to everyone's agendas. Additionally, the company theoretically makes up for their subpar salaries with learning and growth opportunities, but the emphasis is so on the bottom line that no one has time to learn or grow. What's worse is that they don't reward anyone for actually living up to their absurd standards and timelines. Everyone burns out in 6 months to a year. All of which makes working here exhausting because we've created a situation in which it is impossible to improve ourselves or the company.

2.0
Feb 3, 2023

No...Just no.

Recommend
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Pros

Below the VP level are some really good folks who see no siloes and will give you the shirt off their backs.

Cons

Lots of cons here. The C-level group are an amalgamation of nepotism and cronyism. Layoffs happened last year and I am sure they will happen again, very soon, in 2023. Guess who won't be let go? Yep...anyone at the C-level. To this day, I can still not tell you what about 4 or 5 of the "C's" actually do? But they all have each others backs so no worries on the gravy train coming to a stop. The UT board needs to break them up pronto. You could actually save the jobs of a couple dozen people who are the real reason UT sees any success at all by trimming up the fat on the C team. Thoma Bravo leaders should sit in on the revenue teams calls...CRO is a jingoistic quote machine that you'd usually find running the show at any given timeshare organization. Zero deep sales leadership skills or motivational capacity. Just someone else's quotes and sports analogies. No direction other than whatever way the wind blows at the moment. Product is ancient. Lots of lip service on R&D and improvements for which clients clamor but "It's on the roadmap" is the canned reply. Just so much stagnation and gaslighting. Favoritism is also rampant as some sales folks are allowed to have absolutely elitist attitudes to others across the org. Serious problem that crushes the morale of support teams. Get rid of your narcissistic AEs and take a step towards better morale.

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