How is working at Qualtrics?
An opportunity there came across my radar recently. Never heard of this place before but was curious what people thought about working there.
They do surveys and such. That’s the only thing I know them from.
You'll be taking a big pay cut.
It depends on what you’re looking for. The company is growing very fast and you will probably have a lot more scope and influence. They are making moves towards an IPO, but idk when that will actually be. The people are really nice and it’s easy to make friends. It’s not cutthroat and the culture is more or less ok in Seattle. On the other hand, pay is lower than top companies and I think this means we lose out on top talent/fail to retain top talent. There are less interesting engineering challenges as compared to other top companies (my opinion). I would say we are more of a product focused company than an engineering company (pro or con depending on what you want). There are some growing pains that cause reorgs/randomization. Also significant tech debt and poor code quality overall (since one of our pillars is being scrappy... lol). I hear a lot of complaints about management, but this is org specific.
FWIW. I love it. Worked at Amazon and feel that the sphere of impact / influence is much broader. From a pay standpoint, tops compared to start-ups or mid-size private companies in Seattle. Particularly considering stock has upside where I never had any impact on Microsoft stock.
Same here. Compared to my friends at Amazon, Microsoft the impact and ownership is much higher. Salary is always negotiable. If you ace at the interview the hiring committee will push the limit. Benefits are falling behind compared to Facebook, google, Oracle. With bonuses I get about $150k in Seattle non senior. Not counting stock.
Plenty of scumbags, intolerant assholes, and entitled "nice guys finish last" type people. Not an issue, since you can just ignore it, but no one really reins it in or is willing to rock the boat and call people out. Plenty of great people too, but the former really makes you hate the culture sometimes.
This note is spot on, some great people but there are a few psychopaths that operate freely, no accountability and behave like true aholes and it's accepted.....some much for TACOS and the employee experience..... Talk about case study on not practicing what you preach..
What’s the deal with Julie Larsen green. Is she starting to call the shots on product in some weird microsoft matrix way? Or sig really driving decisions still?
Missed opportunity on making this question a survey. You shouldn't get the job. Survey results with free form text feedback are atrocious. And you should know that :)