Private Equity Nightmare - Senior Software Developer bei Smartsheet: Mitarbeiterbewertung

1,0
26. Mai 2026
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Pros

Supportive of AI tooling. I had a great manager. I heard the severance packages are great, but I left of my own volition, so I don’t have personal experience.

Kontras

Complete lack of direction or management at the mid to high levels of the company in product and engineering (most everyone left or was pushed out by cronyism from the private equity acquisition). No more equity offered to employees. No opportunities for promotion. They’ve shipped or are shipping most of the core products (including the core “sheet” aka Grid app) to India and have laid off tons of employees (somewhere between 12% and 15% of the company). Upper management did the thing where they had the US developers interview tons of people out of India, and then about half a year later laid off tons US developers, including several of the people that did the interviews. Upper management said that the India teams would be working on other projects, but clearly that was a lie. They laid off people without consulting their managers, or their manager’s managers, and without knowing what team they actually worked on or what they did. So entire teams were laid off unbeknownst to them. Very quick and poor handoffs to India, if any. You will likely be working on multiple teams at once, or moved to multiple teams during your time there in short periods of time. On-call can be a nightmare. There is no culture of any kind. Basically do not work here, whether you’re out of the US, India, or Bulgaria (the main countries for developers).

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5,0
25. Mai 2026
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Pros

Annual Bonus equal to approx. 10% of income Promotion opportunities Flexible schedule Generous PTO/Sick time Paid Holidays

Kontras

Recent constant changes at current Metrics weighed too heavily on career High workload, expect to carry a backlog

3,0
14. Mai 2026
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Pros

The few long term FTEs that haven't already been laid off really care about the future of the product.

Kontras

There are a lot of new people in leadership, they all of course need to mark their territory and make an immediate impact to drive pipeline. Chaos and churn and lots of AI talk but little action. Morale is low with anyone who has been here since before the layoffs.

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Thank you for all of your feedback. We hear you on how heavy the last year has felt. Going through an acquisition and welcoming new leaders can bring a lot of change and uncertainty. We didn’t make any of these decisions lightly, and while we tried to minimize the impact that it’s had to our employees, we understand that it will affect everyone differently. We also want to clarify that when it comes to our product and AI, our goal externally is to use our AI capabilities to give our customers the best possible product experience, and we’ve received great feedback on the changes that we’ve implemented so far. We know that we have work to do to rebuild trust and morale, and we’re focused on making sure that our teams feel supported and have taken early steps to do so. Thank you for sharing your honest perspective.
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