There was a golden time to join - Software Engineer II Qualtrics Employee Review

3.0
Jul 29, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They are always trying to lead (follow?) the FAANG companies with policies some times we come out with it on our own other times it feels like they are just following the crowd. I've enjoyed working and interacting with the majority of the engineers so people have been great. Learned a lot we were constantly doing more bleeding edge stuff before being acquired after the acquisition there seemed to be more focus on integrating with SAP. Talk about going IPO again and being independent of SAP has things up in the air on priorities.

Cons

Management is still green horned and is learning. They are hiring more seasoned managers now and it looks positive at least 1 or 2 levels above team managers. The promotion process is broken it's constantly changing and in the beginning it was more of who you socialized with or what big project you showed to higher-ups. Many people worked 6+ years before even being considered for promotion with quite a few making large important changes that allowed the company to move faster or be more stable. The stock was a wash, we drank the kool-aid from what was being sold yet with only a little more than 100 people have been here longer than myself it wasn't fully worth it. It would have been better to leave after 2 years to get a higher paying job than stick it out for the money. I stuck around as I was learning so many new things and got to dabble in so many different forms of tech.

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1.0
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Pros

Free lunch and that’s everything

Cons

* No company vision * Pay is mediocre * Lack of growth opportunities * HR is TRASH! You will not be heard nonetheless * Sales driven, which is fine, but that changes every decision the company makes * Lack of product direction mainly because management sucks!! They cannot even prepare a decent product strategy document for a given FY. They ask the L4-L7 levels to come with product goals that they think are important! As long as you produce a BS concept on AI for your product, you are a star, you don’t have to even deliver it! Success metrics are only for the papers, they don’t care if they’re generating any revenue from it!

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