Qualtrics reviews

3.6

62% would recommend to a friend

(2,605 total reviews)
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Jason Maynard

38% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Qualtrics has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 2,605 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Qualtrics employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
May 9, 2016

Meh

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Pros

Great holiday parties. Uh-ma-zing. Seriously, the best. Energetic CEO. I eat cereal for free every single day.

Cons

Where do I begin? It can't be overstated how poorly Qualtrics pays its employees, even for Utah. I guess all that money went to the holiday parties (see above). Not only does Q not pay its employees, it doesn't value them much at all. I've had two great coworkers laid off in the past few months for no reason at all. They were great people and good performers. Clients loved them too. Worse yet, the layoff was a complete surprise to them - everyone knows that good leaders don't let someone go by surprise. It should have been on their radar through performance reviews, but it wasn't. Completely demoralizing to the group. Client Success is a terrible team to be on. New management of this team care only about adding to the bottom line. We are more salespeople than trusted advisers. We work for managers, not leaders. There is no excitement here, only quotas and performance reviews. No career advancing - it is literally a dead end for me. I wish I had never come. Sales people are gods at Qualtrics, and everyone else supports them. Even Legal, or Finance, who hold fancy degrees, play second or third fiddle to the high school GED Provo-allstar who met his quota this quarter. It's exhausting. Avoid it. Not a happy place to be.

2.0
May 9, 2016

Catfished - over hyped company

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Pros

Open environment. Lot of food. Company sells its products well; efficient sales force. Decent benefits (health care). Pretty good coworkers. Lot of job growth in 2015; essentially halted in 2016.

Cons

Most companies probably do this, but its obvious that Qualtrics is gaming Glassdoor with false positive reviews. I've worked here for years and its so easy to pick out the super peppy, happy reviews of Qualtrics. No real employees feel that way about the company. Any review that has Cons filled with "growing pains" or "young company" or "lack of direction, but open opportunities" is masking real life at this Qualtrics. This is my honest review. - Poor compensation - Little PTO... compare to local companies like Adobe - Not as much opportunity as company would have you believe - NO RAISES without "level" promotion, which are extremely rare even for high performers - Sales obsessed, not customer obsessed - Face time (being at the desk from 7:30-6:30) MATTERS here; its cultural and its real - Middle management is terrible compared to other companies I've worked for - No tech company feel anymore; completely operationalized and feels like a dull corporation - Dogs everywhere; making noise and making messes on the floor. Its disgusting Avoid Qualtrics. The company is doing well financially, but is not what it says it is. Qualtrics does well because of its obsessive focus on sales. Sales rules all. Company is not customer-obsessed, but is sales-obsessed. Company also touts being 'transparent' but that doesn't seem to apply to leadership. Talk with employees of the company ... almost no one is happy here. The company will likely do well for another year or two, squeezing every last drop of ambition and goodwill of talented employees; but that well will run dry and you will see massive attrition. There is no payoff from the hard work and demands of the job.

5.0
May 1, 2016

A Hidden Gem!

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Pros

* Transparency: open environment. Everyone can look into what the CEO and leadership did last week and is doing this week (or quarter). Your position doesn't limit what you can or can't do. The competent is rewarded more than the confident. * Scalability: this is not your typical startup. We have a huge load on our system. We are getting really challenged to scale our system to the number of our customers and their customers. * Ecosystem: Like it or not, we are going to become the ecosystem for getting insights about customers, employees, and the market. As of today, everyone in education knows about it. In a few years, everyone in business will be in the same position. * Everyone is talented and HUMBLE. Yes, humble. Good luck finding that elsewhere. I'm going beyond humble now because I want to showcase this hidden gem. * We took the best habits of Google, Amazon and Microsoft. All the other bad habits like working on random stuff just for advertising, abusing our workforce, or nourishing slackers, we left them behind :) Disclaimer: these are my own thoughts; not Qualtrics'. I'm giving you my anonymous opinion as a Qualtrics employee here in Seattle.

Cons

* Health insurance is not that great (compare to Microsoft). Still, I don't have to pay for it like I did in past startups!! * If you're here to slack and relax, this is not the right place for you. * If you just care about what you're doing and don't think of the customer, it won't work either. Come super prepared, the interview bar is high, as an engineer and as a human being.

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