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Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Smartsheet for 2 years
October 28, 2025
Salt Lake City, Utah
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo CEO Opinion
Pros
  1. Pay is decent
  2. Benefits are good
Cons
  1. Mediocre engineering teams and product team is worse.

  2. Leadership doesn't understand tech, or building good foundations take time.

  3. The new USM licensing model that the company bet on is a disaster.

  4. Company is offshoring, so getting fired is a matter of when.

  5. Growth is limited to people who are in good terms with specific individuals.

Advice to Management
  1. Improve the quality of the teams.

  2. Focus on building some features for the existing shallow product. You offer a project management platform and haven't figured out a way to make the product useful to your own agile teams and are now transitioning to Jira. Just think about that.

  3. Be open to feedback from engineers.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
2.0
Culture and Values
2.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
1.0

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