Great product, horrible leadership - Senior Systems Engineer VAST Data Employee Review

2.0
16 Feb 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Excellent engineering team. Excellent support team. Strong Field CTOs.

Cons

The President of the company is way beyond his ability and not growing into the position. Always needs to be the funny guy in the room. Adds little to no value. The CMO is talented but burns through employees quickly with little remorse or care. Wants to be the sales leader, and does not get along well with the President. They are already killing revenue potential for the sales organization. They underpay believing that their stock will have significant value, and “you are lucky to work here.” The company preaches “culture” and completely lacks it.

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5.0
6 May 2025
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Pros

High pay and massive deals for large amounts of commission. And the leadership team is LEGIT.

Cons

Source all deals and can be difficult to find deals sometimes.

2.0
11 Feb 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Customer Support are literal superheroes keeping the product alive. Cool tech and vision.

Cons

Terrible pay compared to industry. Terrible quotas (15% of the company made quota, they cancelled club 2x in a row) Product stability No HR / employee support Terrible benefits. Many people use their spouse’s benefits. Stock grants are garbage now. Are we ever going to IPO? “We’re not a hardware company” and we don’t get paid on HW except our entire lives revolve around it. Zero postsales support. You’d better like living in a datacenter, doing your own installs, and everything. They love playing games with expenses.

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