Toxic culture - Software Development Engineer Qualtrics Employee Review

1.0
Sep 15, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Free cafeteria-quality food in office (if you're standing in line early enough) -The company seems to be doing well

Cons

-Among the worst corporate culture in tech. From top to bottom, the Seattle office is filled with ex-Amazon managers. They brought over the toxic culture rewarding backstabbing engineers, management driven by short-term metrics, and abysmal work-life balance -Inexperienced people managers with no management aptitude -Experienced manager with no management aptitude (i.e. micromanaging directors)

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Qualtrics Response
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We appreciate your review and your advice. We do understand this is your perspective and would love to understand more about where this experience is... It does look like you are a former employee so normally we would encourage you to reach out internally so we can adjust your situation and evolve to improve it. Please feel free to reach out to our recruiting or people ops as we are always looking to improve and certainly do not want a toxic culture for anyone or from anyone's perspective.

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