Don’t do it - Anonymous employee ThoughtSpot Employee Review

1.0
1 May 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Interesting tech which some people are initially interested in, well funded, decent pay, free food (?) nothing much else though.

Cons

Corrosive sales ‘management’ who hire and fire reps at will based on gossip and hearsay. Very few reps are selling anything with an average sales cycle of over 12 months. Drill down hard on this if you interview. Even top performers leave with an AE tenure being measured in months. Again, ask about this. Backstabbing and back channeling is the norm. (I hear this is even worse in the London office) Genuinely shocking.

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ThoughtSpot Response
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I appreciate your feedback, and I hope you have had a chance to share it directly with your manager. If not, please reach out to HR. The details you share are not aligned with the data we have, and we would sincerely like to address the discrepancy with you directly. We encourage all applicants to ask during their interview process about all aspects of working with us, and we are happy to be transparent about our average Sales cycle, tenure of our Sales reps and our Sales culture. We are proud to share that our average sales cycle is 5.5 months from pipeline to close, and that many of our Sales reps have been successful and happy at ThoughtSpot for several years. While we always have room to improve, we pride ourselves on the care we have for our employees and the efforts we take to ensure their success, so please do reach out so we can align our perspectives.

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