Qlik Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Qlik full-time for more than a year

Pros – Company policies are very good internationally and a grt product

Cons – India office is full of politics & monopoly

Advice to Senior Management – Please help the women employee with women counselors., some times women's are squeezed out of their rights & they threaten.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Qlik

Pros – Disruptive technologies make waves in our industry.

Cons – Lesser known company, makes sales harder as we have to explain how we are.

Advice to Senior Management – Give us fair quotas, not something you guess we can do.

Current Employee – been working at Qlik full-time

Pros – I have the opportunity to regularly interact with both senior management and individual contributors across the company and while I can understand some of the frustrations others have expressed, I can say for certain that senior management knows what's going on and has done a great job of adjusting the company to growing pains. From my perspective, this is the least political company I've worked at. People are truly helpful and responsive and if you take some effort to get to know them you'll find open doors. The team atmosphere is second to none and I completely disagree with people who say it feels like a cult. A cult is where people unquestioningly follow a charismatic leader. QlikView is the furthest from that. Differences of opinion is encouraged and doesn't result in career damage.

Cons – Meeting space and office space is at a premium but they are working hard to remedy that.
Could we all get ultrabooks for our next laptop?

Advice to Senior Management – Keep up the good work, keep listening to employees and customers.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Qlik full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – The underlying technology was industry leading. Shame R&D have not moved with the market and there is a real threat that QV will become a boring, same same BI vendor (if it has not already happened)

Cons – The strong amazing culture has disappered since they went IPO. The core values are now ignored and along with ex SAP Business Objects management came a massive change in the way employees are treated.

Advice to Senior Management – Go back to the core values.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Qlik full-time

Pros – Worklife balance, focus on the staff, teamfeeling.

Cons – You like it so much so you tend to work too much.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Qlik full-time for less than a year

Pros – Company has big name customers.
Cool product that some users are fanatic about.
Yearly company meeting with lots of celebration.
Company gets good press from major magazines.

Cons – Mafia-like tactics of manipulation and pressure are becoming the norm.
Support is not well-staffed or trained.
Support can take days for customer response.

Advice to Senior Management – Many customers are cringing at the new high pressure tactics. Listen more to customers and new employees who want to make a difference.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Qlik

Pros – Great collaborative environment. Great team! Visibility into the strategy, participation in key strategic initiatives.

Cons – Work load is very high.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Qlik

Pros – It is a young and dynamic company, workload is heavy but interesting, I have a very good manager who fully supports his team and is there to help us whenever you need him. Benefits and team activities are super and you get to travel to interesting places within Europe and elsewhere.

Cons – Pretty much every employee is overloaded with work, therefore work life balance can get effected if you don't force yourself to leave the office at 6pm. Even if there are plans for formal training in place you may not get to go to them because of workload.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep doing the good things such as team/annual summits and QlikAcadamy but please make sure to give enough headcount to each team so they can perform their jobs without burning out.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Qlik

Pros – Great product, smart people and great flexibility with working from remote locations when needed. Pay and benefits are in-line with industry averages.

Cons – Upper management is clueless about the actual morale and feelings of their employees below the director level. There is a complete disconnect between the executive team and the actual work force in the field. QlikTech WAS a great place to work a while back (I have been a long time US employee). Internal employee surveys have echoed that many of the employees share my opinion. Over the past several years the annual employee surveys have shown a significant drop in employee confidence and sentiment. The executive team attributed this to growth and the post-IPO let-down; however, ratings have continued to drop.

Keep these things in mind when deciding if you would like to work here at QlikTech:
-Disconnect between ‘X-Team’ and the actual field workers in the US
-Nepotism runs WILD in the organization (positions are filled with friends or former colleagues prior to being offered to internal people)
-From a financial standpoint, much of the income on the balance sheet is coming in through foreign currency adjustments (I believe 30%+) and executives have been dumping shares as they vest showing little to no confidence that the company value can grow beyond its current ridiculous 300x revenue trading multiple
-There has been a revolving door in place for the US President position over the past 5 years. Over that course of time there has been 4 US Presidents of the organization in place. Each have their own plans and objectives so it has been really difficult to plan, execute and measure consistently with this going on.
-There is little to no room for career growth within and of the teams in the organization. Even with the organizational growth, when positions become available upwards in the organization they look to external fills rather than looking for qualified people internally.
-There is a very heavy European influence in the business model here in the US. All of us see (except the ‘X-Team) that this model is useless here in the US. This is easily noticeable through the disastrous reseller channel model for QlikTech in the US

Advice to Senior Management – Open your eyes to lower levels of the organziation to gain insight into morale of your teams. You can be written about in HBR and on CNBC all you want (any good PR agency can get you there) but perception isn't the reality inside of your organization.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Qlik

Pros – -Decent pay and obtainable bonuses
-Start-up atmosphere (although getting bigger)
-Good people
-Smart employees
-Challenging Work
-QlikView is a insanely good product
-Employees live, eat & sleep the company and product

Cons – -Employees live, eat & sleep the company and product
-Upper management lacking long-term vision for company and product
-No clear top-down communication
-No room for internal advancement in most positions
-Becoming more and more political every day
-Nepotism runs wild throughout EVERY team especially when new managers take over (jobs are created for friends which would not exist otherwise)
-No talent development for employees
-Projects have been turning into pissing contests more so than ever
-R&D is resistant to feedback

Advice to Senior Management – -Open more channels of communication downward
-Begin to develop and nurture young talent within the organization if long-term growth is truly the strategy for the next 5-10 years
-Keep on developing a great product - however, listen to feedback
-If there is a long-term vision for the company, tell the employees
-STOP THE NEPOTISM and look to internal people to fill roles in the organization

After being in the organization for years one of the great things that had made QlikTech different is the employees and their ability to think outside the BI box. However, since we are getting larger and beginning to hire people from the competition we are become just like the competition. Do whatever you can to keep the QlikTech spirit alive in the company and thwart us from becoming a company where political importance is more valuable than old-fashioned thinking outside the box and hard work.