Sprinklr reviews

3.5

55% would recommend to a friend

(2,564 total reviews)
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54% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Sprinklr has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 2,564 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Sprinklr employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
1.0
Oct 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Ummm...well I'm at loss of words here. Well only thing I could think of is that there are a lot of bright, young individuals who are just stuck at the wrong place.

Cons

The review is not coming from someone who was fired or not performing well (far from it in fact), so you can trust the content to follow. And why am I bringing this up? Because if I were to plot a heat map of the words I came across during my Sprinklr tenure, the word "FIRE" would outshadow every single word. Also, note that I'll be sugar coating things, so don't forget to exaggerate things when you make your decision since the problems listed below only constitute a drop in the ocean. Problems run much much much deeper. So, here we go: 1. To begin with, just have a look at the glassdoor trend of the rating of this company. That alone should be sufficient to ease your decision-making dilemma. 2. Majority of the positive reviews you see out here are from the employees who are just a week (probably a month) into Sprinklr. Reason being, you're begged to write positive reviews about the company as soon as you join (Probably the company also knows that no one can write anything positive once they get to know the company and the culture). 3. Every weekend is a release, so feel free to deduce the most obvious conclusion out of this. (Hint: Working hours. Ring any bells?) 4. Claiming the company is unstructured would be a huge understatement. It is here that you can practically learn the meaning of "chaos". 5. The only deadlines you get are today, tomorrow or the coming weekend (if you're lucky) 6. Immaturity is brimming among the masses. I wish I could quote instances (Yes, they are that shameful). 7. The whole office atmosphere is so negative and so robotic. It's more or less like a puppet show. I've never heard a single positive thing from anyone working there, be it a PM, developer or tester. Everyone is stressed out. Everyone is frustrated. Everyone is pissed. 8. Attrition rate is high even if you overlook the firing part. That's why their policy is to hire freshers from colleges who have no idea about how corporate world functions and use them the way they want to and make them work like machines. 9. Coming to the product now, firstly the number of broken features outnumber the number of working ones. Secondly, I don't understand why do they even call it a product. Implementation is a mess and moreover everything the client demands is taken as a requirement (however stupid that might be). Someone please tell them this is not a service based company. 10. You might think of this as an opportunity to improve stuff but trust me, don't even think about it. It'll be a huge disappointment. All in all, you lose your peace of mind, time and everything. That should be more than enough for you to make an informed decision I hope.

1.0
Nov 21, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Work from home option on public holidays, as the office building is shut down on these days, which is not in the control of Sprinklr Writing any other pro is a sin, as it might give a false negligible positive impression about this sweatshop. Disclaimer After reading the reviews, if anyone still wants to join this sweatshop, then they truly deserve this horrible workplace. I wonder if I can find any workplace worse than this. It is screwed up in all the ways possible, all credit to the most crazy, inefficient CTO of Gurgaon branch. I sincerely request the IIT placement committees to ban this sweatshop (company if it can be called one) and save the students. IITians already have a bad impression about the Indian companies and the work culture. Please do not add more oil to this belief. Also the Gurgaon management makes fool of the IIT placement committee, by offering US placement just to get Day-1 slot. They wantedly did not file the H1-b visa application for some of this year’s US offered students, just because one senior employee wanted them to work in the Gurgaon office.

Cons

Highly unstable product: Lots of poor quality code gets checked in everyday, and they do not have a single unit test the maintain the sanity. The CTO’s principle is to make customers happy (by fooling them). He believes, it is a time waste to write unit or integration tests. To compensate for this, they have a release every Saturday. Developers are forced to push features or fixes very quick, so that any more resulting fixes can be fixed, the next weekend. Any major fixes, occurring from the hasty release, are sent on Saturday and Sunday. So, you have to be available every weekend 24/7. No quality work at all. Quantity is given preference over quality. Sir culture: You are forced to call your seniors as Sir. Only Sprinklr can have this most stupid culture all credit to you know who. The seniors get offended if you don’t call them by Sir. Egoistic senior co-workers: It is great capability of the CTO, that he could consistently maintain this culture among most of the senior employees (senior refers to more than 1 year experienced). You see 1 year experienced employees shouting on their junior freshers, who have just started learning. It is so very surprising how the CTO inculcates this into its employees. This makes the work place, very miserable and toxic. False promises : The CTO just speaks anything that comes to his mind. Gurgaon is highly polluted and the office is very crowded with no space at all. Till now, he has promised that the office will be shifting to places like Goa, Dharamshala, Chandigarh, Panchkula, etc since 2 years. They claimed they reimburse gym memberships, and after taking them, they refused to reimburse them. Long hours : You are expected to dedicate your life to them, just because they are paying your salary. You are constantly threatened to be fired if you can not align with them. You are under constant pressure 24/7 due to their inefficiency. A lot of Computer science students are hired to do manual testing and they do not believe in writing any tests and following any engineering process inspite of the company being 8 years old. Please do not spoil their careers by under utilising their talent. If you try take this up with HR, you will be fired soon, as they don't encourage anyone who do not align with their culture to work in the company. So also be careful when any senior employee asks for a feedback.

1.0
May 14, 2021

Trap - Get out while you can :)

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Pay is top notch (base pay, but there are no stocks as such) Sprinklr was created lot of buzz in the market, so a brand value is added in your resume.

Cons

Lot to say here from India perspective. Forget work-life balance, here no life itself. They don't care about you. Devs have to work during the day and be available during the night because everything here is an escalation and needs to be fixed immediately and this happens everyday :). Especially care team. The product is worse that slight load and something goes down. This is when only few companies use care product and these people want to sell it to everyone. LOL. Company keep talking about some or the other leave. They added 2 weeks off extra leaves for covid. BUT the catch here is that you can't take them so even if they declare 365 days, it doesn't matter. They have world's best AI (as per the CTO and can beat microsoft, google, FB and even human biengs), because they have huge team doing manual tagging and worst thing is that these manual taggers are made to feel that they are doing something great because the job title say "Machine learning associate - R&D". Models here are developed and overfitted on case to case basis. Coming to india HR. They do everything except helping employees. HRs are mostly seen when some goodies have come so that they can take one secretly from new Ggn admin lady. Another time they are seen is when some ELT is around. Sprinklr has HRs for : HR marketing is for making positive image on social media including g-door (you see lot of positive reviews :) HR - analytics : to keep an eye on employees. Other HRs like DB and DL creates anonymous forms which are actually not anonymous. :) Fake positive reviews is something that all HRs do, especially when there is a negative review, they will flood the platform with positive ones. They do also encourage new joiners and interns to write reviews (which anyways would be positive as they don't get to see the real issues). They do some lucky draws and give gifts to people those who share on social media leading everyone in bangalore (non tech free guys) flooding social media. Although pay is great, remember that this is a trap. Because you are made to feel that acting like support is an achievement. Sprinklr calls it ownership and devs should get into these things and management won't fix inefficiency of field teams, support and QA. Those who think and design the system are not promoted. Also they make 1-2 year guys as leads and associate directors, though they do the same thing everyone else does. Now these people are paid more than a person with that experience will earn outside, but is less when compared to the designation. If a director is earning 60LPA without stocks then it is less. You can't go out as outside people will say we can't offer more than senior engineer and thus people have to stay and eventually become a frog in the pond. Remember the trap :) They encourages guys to work 12-14 hours and also on weekends. Some people have to feel guilty for not being available on sunday. CTO very proudly says that he has done his maths, he hires the best, gives 2x salary and take 3x work. Coming to QA team, most of them are manual testers (some guys are good). For everything they will ask what and how should we test. Basically the dev is saying this is where my code will break. If some issue comes, QA will say not able to reproduce and then devs have to help them reproduce, then fix and then again test and show show so that QA can say move the ticket. Even if release is going after 3 months, just before the release in pre-prod env QA will find a blocker and no action is taken against QA for missing it rather he/she would be promoted as he had enough visibility now. Same with devs, you get promoted when you resolve customer issue late night but no one cares why such a bad code was written at the first place. Support team is really frustrated with guys from service company coming and leading; partly due to these leaders are bosses (needed in service company) and partly due to they have never worked and call devs to come on call with customer. They are not technical support, they are just call center guys. They get promoted to technical account managers where they have to tag devs. No need to do anything else. Senior devsops are good and environment here is really great. Please do join if you are joining them. Here no single point of escalation. Everyone from sales, support, success, consultants keep saying this is urgent and devs are to be blamed for everything. Onelist process has stopped. You can't even complaint when things were no planned. They say "fix it don't complaint" which ideally should mean fix it this time and then do the postmortem and fix the root cause. UI breaks every second day due to some console error. The architecture is so bad that they come up with new design so that they have reason to say that instability is due to revamp. Every now and then some or the other server will do GC, OOM etc. Some time mongo is not working, sometime ES. Clients can never rely fully on 100% uptime. By the time people realizes that they are in trap, thie salary would be too high, they would be have family and wouldn't dare to leave. They openly threaten employees not to like news that they have released in news so that they only comply with law to declare public but donot want to come to lime light. Isn't it my personal choice to decide what I want to like and share till the time I am not sharing any internal confidential info. These threats are very common. "amy brown sprinklr" was recently trending on twitter. Please do join for 1-2 years for the brand name but make sure to move out before it's too late. Never the less company has done enough PR and is also best place to work as per the surveys.

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