Q&A With Docusign Employees

Many many silos - many teams working on competing efforts and then the politics involved on many labels. Many weak managers who are afraid to pick a direction and wait for others to lead them.

It depends on the specific teams. You will experience both.

Bad communication and cooperation. Marketing group was a nightmare. Most of the people I worked closely with left the company in 2017.

My experience was toxic cliquey backstabbing.

The feedback process is very one-sided. Regardless of what you and your manager talk about face to face, the written record will only reflect the manager's comments and NOT yours. So even if you agree to or suggest mitigation steps and action items to improve, the written feedback will NOT reflect any of this. It'll just look like you didn't make any effort. WATCH OUT.

Once a year and executives pick those that are more fixable and fix them. Ignored ones are usually the more serious ones.

Formally, there is an annual review & feedback cycle. I wrote up a long set of achievements and goals and my manager never bothered to write anything in response. I know a few other people who never even set goals at the beginning of the year. Raises and promotions are completely up to your lead and may or may not be based on performance and ability at all.

Play the game of thrones. It's very political at the senior level.

Family planning benefit

nothing special that others do not also offer

The company would need a lateral house cleaning across most departments and a serious detox deep clean in Sales.

End silos.

How toxic and harmful their culture is to minorities and people who stand up to bullies.

The real culture

It's mostly white and faux white liberal at that. A bunch of people who hide behind the veil and want the minorities to be grateful and quiet.

A lot. Good balance. Positive

There is much effort to pat each other on back for little or no accomplishments.

Yes

Behavioral mostly and your prior experience.

Mostly behavioral in my case, but for some of the more technical roles, I imagine they'll ask technical questions.

Usually the standard ones. medical, dental, and vision provided. There is a transit benefit as well.

The standard benefits - health, dental, vision, pto & vto. No 401K unfortunately.

Management, management, management. Many of them don't know how to lead nor do they really care about their teams. Some of them don't even show up to work -- they "work from home" and don't even answer emails. Complaints about specific managers via annual surveys have been ignored.

I have seen a few cases. Definitely have to make a case for it.

No, very very uncommon. Teams are like islands or tribes. I know people who's managers have actively blocked their transfers to other teams and departments.

Not difficult. The work life balance is good here.

Easy. People leave at 5 PM everyday.

Know senior leadership. Nepotism is rampant at this company.

Get a referral. Everyone hired is a referral basically.

Docusign is a great product, so I like working with a product that sells itself.

My direct manager and coworkers

Good, I think customers need this type product, so will always have business.

50-50. The company needs to continue to meet it's targets. The valuation is very high, which means the stock needs to perform very well in order to have a successful IPO.

I've never heard of anyone getting laid off, which leads to many underachievers and toxic people remaining at the company for way longer than they should be.

Mass layoffs haven't happened, although well over half the people I started with around 4 years ago have been pushed out due to politics.

New CEO is good. I think most folks like him.

They think he's okay, but he really needs to take action on the culture and get rid of the toxic and inept VPs and SVPs (who are everywhere). They did a pulse survey right when he joined and the results were abysmal but really no action taken. Also, invest in developing your employees. Right now, they just expect people to join work for 1-2 years and churn out because there's no development and raises are really minimal (0-4%) unless you're the bosses favorite or complain a lot.

If you are sales or BD, it's pretty much revenue driven, even when it doesn't make sense. If you are marketing, it's how much you've promoted yourself. So marketing people are usually the first ones to blast the whole executive team about their accomplishments, under the disguise of recaps or team appreciation notes . If you are product / engineering, its how big your project is not how impactful it is.

annual review, 5% allocated per employee per team (for all raises & promotions), your manager allocates that percentage out across your team

4 weeks per year.

20 days

Absolutely nothing. This place is toxic to anyone who speaks out against bullying or racism.

They are not that hard

Depends on if you are a favorite and in with the current “in people”. If not, sorry.