UserTesting reviews

3.6

64% would recommend to a friend

(355 total reviews)
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Eric Johnson

70% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

UserTesting has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 355 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The UserTesting employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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355 reviews
1.0
Mar 23, 2016

Sales review

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Pros

Easy-to-describe product. Lots of case studies and other sales collateral. Good healthcare and vision, decent dental, fair and understanding middle-management, lunches twice a week, weekly massages, matching 401k. Management is pretty flexible on work/life balance and doesn't micro-manage, which is nice.

Cons

They made the most common mistake in Silicon Valley: thinking that more sales people = more sales. See how that's working for Zenefits and a thousand other under-performing companies. Instead of creating a recurring lead generation machine, they've assigned their entire SDR team to qualify inbound leads. Instead of hiring more SDRs to do outbound lead generation by prospecting into new companies, management has doubled the size of the sales team and created two new teams out of thin air; none of which has nearly enough to do or enough leads to hit their quotas. They now expect their highest-paid employees to do the lowest-value work, which has achieved predictable results. Many reps had less than 20 demos in the entire first quarter! This has accomplished two things: lowered earnings per rep by more than 50% (nearly across the board) and caused employee morale to plummet. SDRs are desperate to hit numbers so they pass mediocre leads. AE's are desperate to hit numbers so they convert mediocre leads. If you're being hired for a sales role at UserTesting, do yourself a favor and ask to speak to a rep that was with the company prior to August 2015 to get a comparison of how things were and how they are now.

1.0
Sep 16, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- A lot of the people you will work with are really smart - In many roles you have a lot of autonomy and flexibility to complete your work - A lot of the executives are really smart and trying really hard to make sure their teams succeed

Cons

- There are a lot of really smart, but unproductive people at the company who talk a lot, but never produce any results. It mostly just means a lot of meetings that never result in anything. - None of the departments talk to one another or are on the same page about where the company is going as a whole. This difficulty was further exasperated by a particular executive who is no longer with the company who led half of the company in the opposite direction of everyone else. While upper management is trying to resolve this issue, it will likely take a year or two for us to agree on where we are going and get back on the same page. In the meantime, we're all floundering. A lot of vision is needed to overcome this issue and historically, we aren't very good on defining a company vision. - No one seems clear on what are cultures or values are. We've made a list of company values, but they are so broad and vague that they don't really mean anything. As a result, most of the company just prioritizes being nice to each other (which comes with a huge set of problems where no one gets anything done because they are all too busy being "nice" and therefore don't give feedback or discuss areas of improvement for the company). - We have the most convoluted org chart, to the point that it hinders everyone's abilities to get work done. Inaccurate titles and unclear responsibilities mean that you go to 1 employee to solve a challenge, only to discover that they aren't responsible for the work that their job description/title implies. So no one knows who to work with or go to in order to get things done.

2.0
Jan 7, 2021
Recommend
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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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