TechSmith Reviews

I worked at TechSmith as an intern for less than a year

Pros – -Great Pay for interns
-Casual work environment
-Hire from intern pool

Cons – Value outside hires more than internal employees

Advice to Senior Management – Value your home grown employees more

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

I worked at TechSmith as an intern for more than a year

Pros – great people, great culture
work closely with the managers and learn from them
great working environment

Cons – doesn't not have enough variety of project to design for

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

I worked at TechSmith as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Easy-going culture
Talented co-workers
Very flexible
Free lunch on Fridays
Get to work on real-world projects
Awesome to have on your resume

Cons – High turn over (because the workers are so talented)
In Okemos, MI

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

I worked at TechSmith full-time for more than a year

Pros – - Get skunk works projects into market
- Autonomy
- Great products
- Premium work/life balance

Cons – - Lack of Leadership competence
- Lack of business model innovation
- Lack of portfolio strategy needed for the breadth of offerings
- No accountability

Advice to Senior Management – Make an effort to get more plugged into what is happening in software and technology. Reading about it doesn't really cut it. Should not be a victim to decisions made by the CEO.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I worked at TechSmith as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Community lunches and activities, a welcoming campus, and all right within distance of Michigan State University.

Cons – It's not near any major city.

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

I worked at TechSmith as an intern for more than a year

Pros – Was a great place to work! Everyone is really nice. Free food on Fridays, a bit of a start-up feel where if you have a great idea, there will be people to listen to it and take it into consideration. Great place where you will get acknowledged when you go above and beyond effort-wise. Products and customers are great.

Cons – Location isn't the greatest - although there are a variety of restaurants nearby, I would not want to live in this area.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at TechSmith

Pros – Really smart developers
Good benefits
Fun parties
Friday lunch

Cons – Painfully slow decision-making
Leadership can't/won't give clear direction
Spends way too long stuck in conversation
Inexperienced people in too many key leadership roles

Advice to Senior Management – Less talk, more doing
Software is risky - get over it!

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

I have been working at TechSmith full-time

Pros – Passionate about customers, humble attitudes, midwest values, good work / life balance, consistent growth over many years both in business (revenue) and staff size, not located in a stressful, high traffic congested area, close to Michigan State University.

Cons – Growing in size can be good and bad at times... the downside shows at times with typical growing pains experienced in structure, management maturity / development and processes.

I worked at TechSmith part-time for less than a year

Pros – I really liked working here. Everyone is EXTREMELY nice and helpful. This company really cares about their employees and the employees really care about their customers. Sometimes it got a little boring but overall it was a great experience. Loved it!

Cons – They waited until the last minute to tell me they weren't going to extend my internship. I felt they could've gave me a bit more notice. Other than that it was fine.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at TechSmith as an intern for less than a year

Pros – TechSmith offers you amazing opportunities to gain insight into the software, late startup world. They have an amazing culture of innovation, and it is a lot of fun to be around. TechSmithies are some of the drop down best people in the entire world.

Its amazing how much time they spend focused on innovating their core, and brainstorming new ways to be successful and stay nimble.

Cons – TechSmith lets you operate a little below your capacity. Unless you really apply yourself to learn new skills, or to contribute to their core then you can find yourself bored.

They are nearly 20 years old now, and so have lost a bit of the inventiveness to bureaucracy and red tape.

Advice to Senior Management – remove some of the roadblocks to innovation, and bureaucracy. You aren't a speedboat anymore - but at least pretend to be.

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