Chainalysis Reviews

As things went along it was clear they were drowning in Tech Debt and were unable to deal with it. They have a very strong 'we can do this' and never bring in the experts who can. Yearly planning was a joke that no one followed, the software architecture is a tangled mess, and the teams are so busy keeping everything working that there really isn't much time to make improvements. They are a series F but with no revenue plan (or at least none that anyone in product or engineering could articulate) The worst part was getting gaslighted when I tried to bring this up to help. I've worked in quite a few start-ups and never before did I get gaslighted so bad. It's like those movies with an idyllic utopia until you find something wrong and then they turn nasty.

Unfortunately, Chainalysis follows the old stereotype for sales teams of being negative, cutthroat, and overly competitive. Anyone who has been on a really successful sales team knows that that's not how to succeed. The sales team was grossly negative, overly competitive, and to put it plainly, not nice. This rings true for the SDRs to the Commercial reps to the Enterprise reps to the managers, director, and CRO. It's the whole Sales org. Leadership also knows nothing about crypto or web3, which doesn't make sense as it claims to be a web3 company (it's not, it's 100% a traditional web2 company that sells SaaS for companies involved in crypto/web3). The company as a whole has a weird love for the police and the military. I understand that that part of the public sector does the most business for the company, but it's as if Chainalysis believes there is nothing wrong with police in the US or the US military. You must know this going in because if this doesn't align with your values, it will bother you a lot. The company huddle in DC was a disgusting display of toxic masculinity, drunkedness, and sexual harassment. I've seen other examples of sexual harassment on the sales team. The sales team is by far mostly white straight men. Hardly any diversity at all. I saw the CSO show off his "challenger coins" that he got from Chainalysis's military and police clients to the entire company on a company-wide call, as if he was completely unaware that US police and the US military have ever done anything wrong. This is the kind of company you will be joining. Many employees also seem to be unaware that there is anything wrong with Chainalysis, which makes it feel like a weird cult or that you're working with robots. Lastly, there's not enough business for Enterprise reps yet. I would really think twice about joining the company as an Enterprise rep as it's still early for crypto on the enterprise level and you may not sell much/make a lot of commission.