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Microsoft Viva Glint

Score9.2 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

What is Microsoft Viva Glint?

A solution to improve engagement and performance with recommended actions and data-driven insights across employee lifecycle and organization-wide surveys. Glint was acquired by LinkedIn in October 2018, and is now Microsoft Viva Glint, an app that is available standalone or as part of Microsoft's Viva Suite of employee engagement applications.

Categories & Use Cases

Glint is great at soliciting feedback, mixed on helping management change

Pros

  • Great way to create and send surveys.
  • Easy to fill out when expecting 100s of responses.
  • Effective at collating response for management teams to review.
  • Ability to complete on mobile devices.

Cons

  • Management coaching to fix discovered problems.
  • Individual responses to individual issues.
  • Clear explanation of anonymity or who will end up reading the feedback.

Return on Investment

  • Feeling more involved in company decisions.
  • Getting feedback to management on critical problems.
  • Having a place to vent in anonymity.

Good platform, very user friendly, good technology & customer service

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My company started to use Glint for our employee engagement surveys, but when we found out they have a lot of additional add on features/platforms, and after our communications team was happy with using Glint, the HR/L&D teams looked into it for our 360 surveys and exit interview processes.

Glint was also acquired by LinkedIn and our company is a big LI customer as well.

Pros

  • Support team
  • Availability and helpfulness of account reps
  • Ease of use for survey recipients

Cons

  • Backend upload of data for admins
  • Simplifying how to pull and use the data from surveys

Most Important Features

  • User friendly
  • Doesn’t malfunction or glitch
  • Has multiple features

Return on Investment

  • Provided us with a platform to assess employee sentiment so Leadership can collate the feedback and make improvements

Our organization could not be happier

Pros

  • Project planning
  • Implementation
  • Customer service
  • Troubleshooting

Most Important Features

  • Ease of use
  • Reporting

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact on our departmental transparency

Glint--Very Good Employee Survey Software

Pros

  • Pulse surveys are easy to navigate and complete
  • Reports are insightful and actionable
  • Pulse survey frequency can be calibrated to fit the needs of the company

Cons

  • The commenting process could be improved--sometimes a survey will skip ahead when you aren't ready to proceed

Return on Investment

  • It's been helpful to track score progressions across feedback areas over time; this reinforces to employees that feedback is valued and incorporated.

Other Software Used

Workday Cloud Platform, The Okta Identity Cloud, BlueJeans, Zoom

Best in Breed for Engagement & Surveys Hands Down

Pros

  • Easy to Use
  • End user friendly
  • Great technical support team
  • Artificial intelligence on comments
  • Continual innovation
  • Learning features in tandem with action steps

Cons

  • Contingent/conditional questions

Return on Investment

  • Diversity and inclusion survey/engagement focus.
  • Ability to quickly see and act on employee trends.
  • No need for other tools/products for other survey types.

Alternatives Considered

SurveyMonkey and Google Forms

Usability