Beware of burnout - CSM UserTesting Employee Review

2.0
Jan 7, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Product, product, product, product, learning.

Cons

The company presents the numbers of Regrettable and Non-Regrettable employee turnover at All-hands meetings. What feels good about working for a company that places an emphasis on how little they regret the firings they have made? ... In a pandemic no less. Like most tech start ups, you will do especially well if you are a white male. Women are referred to during company sales team meetings in derogatory and mysogynistic ways (referring to our customers). Company focuses on "culture fit" meaning, if you look like and speak like the leadership team, you will fit. If you look different or have a unique perspective, you will struggle. Lots of mixed messaging around supporting Black Lives Matters, but don't talk about politics or your preferred candidate. BLM, unless you earn over $400,000...

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UserTesting Response
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Sounds like we need to do better in our messaging on turnover, although Andy does explain why we use those measures when we discuss them. It would be ideal if everyone fit and our hiring were perfect, but that's not realistic. What we feel we do well is communicate with people that things aren't working out. The best outcome for everyone is that people opt out and find a new role with little disruption to their lives and with their heads high. While this turnover isn't regrettable, we wish the people that leave us the best future possible and help them get to their next place. Our discussions around culture fit focus heavily on our value of "Be Kind" and as we scale, it becomes more and more important not to bring jerks, politicos, and ladder-climbers onto the team -- that's the culture fit that is important. I'm wondering what mixed messaging you have noticed around our diversity and inclusion efforts? We're proud to be 44% women worldwide and 16% underrepresented in the U.S. With the addition of our head of inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging recently, and the creation of the diversity recruiting program, we're trying to accelerate our progress and become an example for other software companies. We encourage you to bring your point of view and join us to help in our focus on making this a company that reflects the communities around us.

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