Smartsheet
Is it really that bad? Their product seems pretty good, but their employee reviews are terrible. Lawyer friends tell me their legal department is incompetent, but what do I care? SWE #smartsheet
Everything I’ve seen has been related to experiences from being on “bad” teams. All companies have those.
Legal team is very young and very green.
Translation: Trash
It is turning out to be a sweat shop and at this point I don’t know what upside the stock has, more downside probably as growth decreases steadily
CPO (aka former CTO) is a toxic micromanager who rules by fear. Product is messy. Blood in the streets elsewhere. But all teams have pockets of sanity.
Run away from this place if you can. A bunch of ex Amazonians have made the culture even worse than Amazon.
Yup I hope you've left the shit hole because it's only getting worse.
I did. What happened lately?
How’s SmartSheet doing?
If we look over the past year, we’ve added no net new employees, zero stock price growth (actually slightly down), no new products, no major enhancements, and employee engagement is continuing the downward trend. It’s not as bad a some companies, but definitely far from good.
Doing great. C level is micromanaging by looking into sprint end newsletter and instructing engineers to do their jobs, middle level managers are desperately trying to speak at every opportunity to gain visibility to stay in rat race (if you are not visible, you won't be needed here. Work is not needed but visibility is out most important) and teams are in endless meetings to decide what to do in the name of alignment. In short, corporate cronies are thriving.
You don’t care jumping into a building that is on fire?