Hello Thoughtspot India folks, I am in the interview process for a Staff Engineer role at Thoughtspot and most probably will be getting an offer. I was wondering if someone could answer some of my questions about culture, company and work. 1. What is the culture like? Is it rewarding/meritorious or more political? Is it more startup like or corporate like at the moment or perhaps if I'm overly optimistic, a healthy mix? 2. How is the company doing overall? Were the previous quarters good in terms of business? 3. How's the overall product development direction and recent R&D investments? 4. Whats your take on the leadership? Is the company transparent? Thanks in advance for any inputs! Edit: Since everyone is concerned about TC here, adding that. Current TC: 75.65L + 10% bonus fixed + ESOPs (hard to compute value, but if you assume 10$ value per stock, worth about 180,000$ per year) Offer TC: unknown yet. Cheers! #tech #india #bangalore #thoughtspot
Tc? And offered tc
Yoe?
8.5 YOE.
180k per year $10 value per stock. that sounds good. I would say stay where you’re 1 chaos, politics 2 ok ok, can’t share qoq details 3 direction changes like wind, can’t share investment 4 transparent in things they can share, there are frequent layoffs
My motivation to look outside is not pay. Also, the paper money still has a long way to go since its a series B company. It is growing and what I've accumulated so far will continue to give me yield in the positive scenario. Also, no later stage/public companies will match the projected value of an early stage startup offer. So, I'm looking at this from a realistic POV. I'm looking for a place that can at the very least match my pay (cash component + decent stock offer adjusted to the stage of the company) while giving me more challenging work and growth opportunities. I'd take a place with better opportunities and competitive pay than sheer projected value. Hence the questions around the culture and work.
In general many startups have lost value compared to 21 or early 22 and there were no funding rounds post that, whatever you’ll get in startups is projection for 4-5 years at minimum with a risk of getting displaced In terms of work opportunities it’s mixed, there are teams which do good work but it’s very fast paced environment similar or worse than series B Culture has seen a downfall since last few years with frequent layoffs, re orgs, leadership moving
Do you mind revealing the current company name?
Sorry, don't want to at the moment. We are a small team. Hard to keep the anonymity if I mention the current place now.
Hey there, you seemed to have researched quite well about the company. I was also having some doubts regarding TS, I will be a SDE intern there next summer and was thinking about is company worth accepting PPO for a new grad? TC they offer: 27 + stocks
Nope
Update your offer dude!
Did you join ?
It's horrible, to say the least. Always firefighting and no direction at all. There are too many issues in every team to solve. Hence, no real development happens quickly, and on top of that - morale is low as well. No work life balance as well. Leadership seems clueless. Only one VP is good and rest all are not even close to EM in other companies. Join only if you have no option.
Why is morale low ? Also do you have info on mode analysis acquired by Thoughtspot ?
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