Docusign reviews

3.6

61% would recommend to a friend

(3,624 total reviews)
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Allan Thygesen

59% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Docusign has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 3,624 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Docusign employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Oct 16, 2022

DocuSign cared about its employees...until it didn't anymore

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Pros

DocuSign was genuinely a great place to work until two weeks ago.

Cons

DocuSign had a perks program during the pandemic entitled DocuSign Cares. Two weeks ago, though, the company laid off 9% of employees, or roughly 900 people by internal estimates. A lot of those folks had been at the company for multiple years, some 5+, but were laid off as part of a "restructuring plan" that named over-hiring during the pandemic as the main reason for restructuring. The laying off was handled extremely poorly by leadership, who took to referring to employees as "bodies" during their all-hands call on the subject. "We threw too many bodies at our problems in the past." DocuSign's leadership has been tactless during the process, but more troublingly, the decision to make layoffs was a major departure from the company's stated culture of cultivating trust and love for our customers and fellow employees. DocuSign cares? More like DocuSign cared.

1.0
Sep 9, 2022

Glad I left

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Pros

Really easy to fly under the radar. Little to no accountability.

Cons

Lack of accountability, primarily because you'll have to depend on people who take no responsibility or have no sense of initiative.

3.0
May 9, 2022
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Pros

Undisputedly the leader in functionality - extremely rare to lose in a feature comparison End users love DocuSign Good benefits (health insurance, ESPP, 401k, etc) Fantastic professional growth opportunities for top performers

Cons

The whole commercial sales org is having a tough time with very few reps hitting quota. The solution is always just "make more calls" from your manager. The stock tanked because for some reason management thought we could continue growing at the same rate as we did during covid. Still blows my mind they acted like new business wouldn't slow down after restrictions ended. Product is extremely expensive compared to competitors. For SMB customers with simple use cases, it's extremely hard to justify the price. That said it's still legit the best choice for larger customers with more complex use cases. Zero training for new AEs, very much sink or swim. They knew I had no closing experience when I started as an AE and yet I got no closing training, ever. Highly underpaid in comparison to the industry. When asked about this, our CEO gave an out of touch answer and cited how Google employees also think they're underpaid. When I was shopping around for a new role recently, I applied to 20+ companies. Literally every single one offered a substantial increase in base pay and OTE compared to what I was making at DocuSign, for the exact same job title and responsibilities, at companies ranging from startups to enterprise companies. Either DocuSign is in denial, not doing their homework, or straight up gaslighting their employees about how much an AE should be making. A senior MDR has a higher base pay than an AE now, and MDRs have an easier time hitting quota. So a senior MDR often makes more than their AE. Wtf? Also the CEO promised pay raises for everyone, but then a few weeks later the CRO clarified it was everyone except sales. As one can imagine, the sales org was not very happy about that, considering how underpaid AEs are. Mass exodus of employees right now, like nothing I've ever seen at a company before. They're losing top performers because they can make more elsewhere.

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