Pitney Bowes Reviews

Pros

You are provided all resources needed to complete you job

Cons

You are given just enough rope to hang yourself

Advice to Senior Management

Learn how to lead

Pros

the people are great people but not the most business saavy

Cons

Major aversion to risk taking. Want to see financial results in a period of time that is too short to produce real results. Not much funding for marketing activities.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate strategies to all employees...

Pros

Company offers good work life balance, good benefits, decent compensation, flexibility to work from home as long as work gets done.

Cons

There is no career growth as company is struggling. Minimum salary raises even if you work very hard and get a good year end review.

Advice to Senior Management

Please retain your talent

Pros

well known name, products everyone USED to use, great service department, very good benefits, not a bad place for a college grad to start.

Cons

ancient business model, unrealistic sales goals, internet training is not sufficient for new sales people, specialists have conflict of interest with sales reps

Advice to Senior Management

they need to create a brand new business model for the primary business line of mail machines. otherwise shrink this unit and promote the other companies you have purchased

Pros

Toronto Management and colleagues were great.

Cons

Overtime and weekends. If you can't do it, don't sign up

Advice to Senior Management

A successful sales person does not a manager make. Management is a specific set of skills.

Pros

Strong name recognition that provides credibility to approach existing and potential customers
Wide variety of services and products to offer
Good benefits and company resources available to employees

Cons

Disengagement of sales force, lack of planning and follow through on plans by management - and I was first line management.
Pay, commission structure and incentives are extremely confusing and do more to frustrate than motivate.

Advice to Senior Management

Identify root cause of issues and the common denominator and correct those. Use people outside the regular chain of command to evaluate local leadership.

Pros

- pay and benefits
- good place to get the experience but not a place to build career
- convenient location

Cons

- poor leadership
- no strategic direction
- plans are haphazard, very reactionary
- poor management control and lack of cohesion
- lack of communications from the top

Advice to Senior Management

- management needs to learn from companies that have gone through similar transformation efforts and make changes at the top, bring in people with experience in change management

Pros

They have a great benefits package.

Cons

Recruited me based on technical skills and then placed me in a very monotonous and non technical job

Advice to Senior Management

Treat people like adults and with respect and they will work for you.

Pros

Great benefits (401k, Health, Dental)
Large territory assignment
Company name recognition
Good place to start if you are a new to sales

Cons

Low annual salary
Sure Start training is really not that great
Mail volumes are continuing to decline
Customers dont see benefit of Pitney Bowes solutions

Pros

Good benefits, focus on diversity

Cons

Many changes, multiple directions being taken

Advice to Senior Management

Learn from competitors and how they are evolving