C3 AI Reviews

3.1

46% would recommend to a friend

(814 total reviews)
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Stephen Ehikian

38% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

C3 AI has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 814 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The C3 AI 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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814 reviews
1.0
15 Dec 2021
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Pros

Perks were incredible, work from home as much as you want and pretty much did my own hours. Pretty much awarded cheap options for doing nothing.

Cons

There was more talk about how people were making money than actually doing work. I liked working until money became an issue over work.

5.0
29 Aug 2025

Great Company!

Recommend
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Pros

Great teams. Great offices. Can only recommend.

Cons

none that I can think of.

1.0
22 Mar 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- great coworkers - good mission - free lunch - nice office - fun sports events

Cons

All of the problems I've faced here seem to be the result of poor leadership: - The CEO's decisions are final and non-negotiable (regarding both culture and business). - The management style is archaic, stemming from fear and mistrust of employees. For instance, engineers must log every minute of their work, and are hardly allowed to speak with other employees outside of their team unless 1) explicit permission is granted by management and 2) a "ticket" is filed for the meeting to capture the time spent speaking to outsiders. Engineering management has no idea how to lead people properly; the "apps" team management is especially clueless and ineffective. - There's a "no work from home" policy, which isn't the best but is fine since all employees were told before being hired. The problem with this, however, is that employees are only given 5 sick days per year and are not allowed to work if caught being sick. Got a cold, yet can still get work done at home? Nope, take a sick day, stop working. Out of sick days? Pretend not to be sick when you come into the office or take PTO. Out of PTO? Don't get sick or don't get paid. - Some employees, including the person at the front desk, are treated like garbage. I've seen execs randomly yell at subordinates in front of everyone for virtually no reason, embarrassing them terribly. - C3's mission is overall good, but for a company who began by focusing on the energy industry in order to combat climate change, our customers nowadays are pretty heavily skewed towards Oil & Gas companies.

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C3 AI Response
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We are sorry about your experience and perceptions. C3.ai is rapidly growing and does drive a formal and collaborative engineering process to prioritize and deliver product to meet market and customer expectations. With sales growth of 100% and headcount growth of 100% year over year, we are very focused on building a great culture, our customers successes, and on-time delivery of a highly differentiated product. In regard to your comments: 1. We hold all our engineers to high standards of code quality and sprint delivery with well-established tools and processes. We use Jira for release and engineering management and request engineers to keep track of their work. These are consistent with established best practices in agile software development and followed by the world’s best engineering organizations. 2. Your assertion that people yell at employees in the office is absurd and is antithetical to the culture at C3.ai. 3. C3.ai management is hard at work building a successful software company and has a stellar track record of building multiple market-leading large-scale enterprise software companies. That record speaks for itself. 4. We understand that when an engineer receives a negative performance review for not delivering on projects or consistently delivering poor quality code, he or she may respond negatively and lash out.
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