I would strongly advise against any engagement with Cornerstone OnDemand!
I was fired one month after I received a rare bonus for my excellent performance. Both my line manager and my colleagues were shocked, as they were all happy with my work. My line manager did not know about it before I did. A few of my other high-performing colleagues were fired, too.
This was part of a large layoff that happens semiannually! Apparently, I was hired the year after the previous layoff, and in the same year I was hired, I was let go due to a new layoff, right after getting performance bonus.
How can you commit to a company knowing you could be fired at any moment, through no fault of your own? If someone from the company is reading this review, please address this question, you may ignore the rest.
I hope you are done reading by now.
If not:
1. The company is filled with bureaucracy at all levels. Here are some examples that will affect an engineer most often: bureaucracy in backlog planning means you often have no work at all, or you have far too much due to steep deadlines. There is also bureaucracy in technical decisions; for example, you are required to always throw exceptions to log any error (in .NET, this is a huge performance hit and a minor security risk) or spend literally months adhering to a bespoke health-check solution that adds no value compared to a standard approach. There are many more examples.
2. Your work is constantly affected by outages of bespoke company services.
3. I got lucky with a two-year-old laptop. Most of my colleagues had laptops that were, no joke, roughly 10 years old, and management would not approve new ones.
4. There was never even the prospect of team-building activities.
If you are still thinking of taking an offer from this company, at least as an engineer, I don't know what could make you think otherwise.
