Growing Pains - Anonymous employee Qualtrics Employee Review

3.0
Feb 10, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Quality coworkers Facilities in line with mid-tier tech companies Company culture promotes branching out, growing up and out of role Successful company, lots of potential, competitive in market Making efforts to increase diversity in workforce Some attempts at consistent company-wide strategy, mission, communication

Cons

Compensation lower than other companies competing for same candidates Same "leader worship" found at other founder-led companies Marketing efforts to recruit sales-types are a turn-off for serious engineers PTO policy bundling sick and vacation, along with inconsistent policies among teams re wfh, are inviting a lawsuit at worst and mass flu transmission at best Engineers spend too much of their time maintaining a massive code base with significant tech debt "Transparency" seems to only apply to company desire to control students and recent grads and doesn't result in insight into executive deliberations and decisions, including promotions and compensation Team-based incentives conflict with "One Team" motto Recent push toward specialization is accelerating already-existing duplicate efforts and inefficient siloing across teams and offices Efforts to improve diversity in hiring aren't coupled with efforts to keep diverse employees; maternity/paternity/family leave policies are reactionary and lagging

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 27, 2026
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Pros

Great benefits and resources available for their employees. In-office perks include catered lunches 3 days a week, 2 days with grub-hub credits, and free snacks and coffee daily; alongside office events and parties. There is a generally positive culture amongst the overall company.

Cons

Their actual company leadership does not always make the best decisions and rather than prioritizing root cause issues that impact both the customers and employees' daily work, they would rather prioritize shinier items that give the illusion of innovation. This will trickle down to the employees in the form of stressed deadlines, longer hours, and frustrated clients and/or frustrated teams you may work cross functionally with that are client facing. Your actual experience at qualtrics is largely based on what team/job function you are in and who your manager is. Additionally, there is a glaring diversity issue that remains unaddressed with no real effort to hire more underrepresented people of color, leading to the high turnover rate of underrepresented minorities who are not lucky enough to have great managers.

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