Abandon hope all ye who enter here - Customer Success PatSnap Employee Review

2.0
Oct 27, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Compensation can be competitive Product is actually competitive in the core market. It just a shame the CEO insists on pushing products which everyone in the organization (aside of him) know are terrible. Good people at the ground floor with great skills that are just trying to keep their head above and find a way out of this mess of a company.

Cons

Where to even start: Senior leadership changes every 3-6 months The company makes decisions that look at the next month and have no long term strategic vision to speak of. They seem to read the latest hot topic article and then form a new strategy weekly You will have 3 times the accounts they tell you is optimum, because their recruitment planning is catastrophic and they cant retain decent staff. You will have your targets changed every quarter and they will be haphazardly set during the quarter in question with little to no explanation. Weekly propaganda sessions run by the authoritarian leadership which provide less value than reading a cringe inducing series of randomly synced business clichés. With a healthy smattering of blame and delusional targets. We ask, we deny and then we ask again until we get the answers we want. Should be the mantra of the senior leadership team at Patsnap. Embarrassing attempts at diversity inclusion which are endlessly insensitive to ethnic minorities and members of the LGBTQ community. Perhaps more so than saying nothing at all. You will be setup to fail on a quarterly basis and then blamed for your lack of success. Colleagues disappear with no notification of them having left, the whole organization is built on a code of secrecy and/or burying heads in sand. The only way to be successful in this organization is to drink the Kool Aid and pretend that the delusional ravings of the senior leadership team make sense. In summary - Patsnap is perpetually trying to put a fresh coat of paint up, while the house is on fire.

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PatSnap Response
5y
Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. It’s great to hear that you find both our compensation and our product to be competitive in the market. We love to hear when our employees believe in our products and services. At PatSnap we have a clear purpose to guide where the business is going. We strive to be an agile organisation, we think big, think the unthinkable, strive to achieve breakthroughs in innovation for both our customers and our own products and services. This means we need to be able to adapt, make difficult decisions, and seek to achieve a balance between speed and stability. We are continually learning, and consequently we do not always get this balance right for everyone at PatSnap. We are sorry to hear about your experience at PatSnap. This year we achieve a 77% positive rating on our Inclusive Culture Index on our employee engagement survey and DE&I remains a priority moving forward. Please reach out to employee engagement manager as we would like to understand more about your experience. We listen to our Glassdoor reviews and feedback from all our employee listening channels (including our engagement champions network) because as a business we want to learn everything we can to engage our people in our transformation. Based on our survey results, we are currently launching new organisational leadership behaviours that align with our company values. These will show up in everything that we do, and so every leader, manager and all PatSnappers will continually reinforce our culture and values.

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Cons

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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us. We’re thrilled to know you had a positive experience at PatSnap and we appreciate your feedback. Specific feedback, such as yours, helps us make improvements moving forward. We’d also like to take a moment to thank you for the contributions you made during your time at PatSnap. Best wishes to you in the future!
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Cons

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