PatSnap Reviews

Pros

Fantastic customer universe and market place if your curious about technology and best practice innovation. Evolving and maturing ''go to market'' team which is working on some game changing strategies.

Cons

Very fast paced and sometimes choatic - guessing that's normal for a venture capital backed SaaS business. Also the founders are relatively young so sometimes get shiny toy syndrome:-)

Advice to Management

Our naturally evolving focus on ''innovation intelligence'' is very excisting and engaging. Please stay focused on this as I feel we are really on to a long-term winning stratgey.

Pros

Great people, trusting and challenging working environment, you are given autonomy to do your job and now true career development are being created

Cons

Fast paced working environment

Advice to Management

Listen to to you people and see our committee!

Pros

Can't really think of any Pros here

Cons

Picture a business, that want's everything in the world, but has absolutely no idea how to get there, almost making more mistakes along the way than anything else. I could write on for hours what goes wrong in this company, but I am just glad i left that sinking ship before I drowned with it.

Advice to Management

Sell the business to anyone who wants to and can bring in a competent SLT along with them. Also hire people with experience and no students who try their first job here. Also, unrealistic sales goals won't keep people in your company.

Pros

This company is changing for the better. I enjoy every day I spend here. I am learning from my everyone here. All are very open, honest and inclusive in their approach. Many new and effective processes are supporting our goal towards the future ahead of us. I feel very lucky to be part of this journey and to contribute with my ideas and knowledge. Great that our CEO finally has his leadership team in place and focusing on the right initiatives and finally getting more positive support from us all.

Cons

There are still a good handful of negative personalities who seems to be stuck in the past and pulling a lot of optimism downwards. I'm afraid what more damage they can to to us all if they are unable to transform. I wish they would leave and leave the future of patsnap to those who like change and growth.

Advice to Management

I know you are listening, so let the positive feedback be the strength to concur those who only are here to destroy. We love what you are believing and involving us in.

Pros

As a startup company, you’ll have many chances to explore new projects. This is something you can never imagine if you work for a more established company. Here you can try anything and the leadership team supports such culture. Founders encourage open communication, you can often find employees talk to top management directly. Often times you are engaged in cross team discussion and brainstorming.

Cons

Also because of the startup nature, products evolve so fast that leadership team constantly alter their thoughts. You need to learn to move on and embrace change or otherwise you be lost in your previous endeavors. Some managers grow with the company when it’s first founded, some managers are hired externally. There is no bad or good for these two managerial styles, just that in a long run this is challenging and might affect the execution.

Pros

Business park is a nice place to work. Greg was a pleasure to work under, learnt a huge amount from his successful experience as an SDR and played a vital role in developing my sales career. Great team culture. Good place to starts your sales career.

Cons

Lack of transparency in the past. Lead sourcing.

Advice to Management

Continue to grow at a sustainable rate.

Pros

I just left patsnap and I really appreciate the opportunity given. This is my first product manager role. I was under the data team as data expert originally and the company willing to give me a chance to be product manager when I applied for it. For the past 1 year when I was product manager, I have learnt so much. The last project I was involved in was the smart image feature. It was one of the very innovative feature that we have launched this year and the customers love it. It helped them to save a lot of time when viewing patents. I really enjoyed the job and can feel the impact I made to the customers - helping our R&D customers to make the world a better place.

Cons

Since last year the company start introducing process to manage the product release. We setup a PMO function to run that. The intention was good but the actual implementation should be better well thought out. I believe the process is suitable for bigger corporation but for our size, we should have a lighter process and keep our agility and innovation.

Advice to Management

Product is still the most core to the business, especially we are a Saas business. Our patent core analytics is definitely the leading product in the industry and we also have launched a few new products - discovery and bio. We need keep innovating but at the same time need to be focus.

Pros

The location Most of the people A really good product up to Q4 2017 CEO is inspiring but lost some vision

Cons

Didn’t kick on following funding rounds Failed to hold on to best sales people Forced half ready products out Didn’t back enterprise properly Failed to penetrate fortune 100 targets Lost the energy on the floor and the why Awards brown nosing over talent

Advice to Management

Think about where you want to be based, Toronto or London, cut off LA it’s failed. Reward staff and try and regain some spirit