8x8 Reviews

Pros

The company culture is really great. The products are solid. Executive Team listens and is very transparent. Very talented people. Company products are integrated and PLMs listen to the field.

Advice to Management

Focus on channel partners and making sure we deliver on the strategy!
Execution will be key here.

Pros

- Outstanding opportunity in the marketplace. Marketplace is hungry for the technology, and this company is doing moderately well despite the technical limitations and flaws within the product.
- Location is decent, near SJ airport.
- Food- Not many restaurants within walking distance, but they accommodate by bringing in food trucks daily to allow for easily purchasing lunch. They do also provide free lunch 1 day a week, but it seems to be the same 4 or 5 things rotating through. Not much variety.

Advice to Management

- Hold people accountable.
- Don't get so stuck in your old ways because some of the same leadership has been around for over a decade.
- In a company who's core product allows people to work from anywhere, the lack of work from home flexibility is laughable.

Pros

Good Work Place and good work ethics in the team.

Advice to Management

Lots of room to improve and grow.

Pros

A few very good people do work here.

Advice to Management

Stop obsessing over Ring! Stop showing us your slides telling us how we are beating them while in reality they are beating us! Address the ACTUAL problems head on and with courage! Hint: The problem IS the product (and YOU!)

Pros

Product, Growth potential, Leadership, Benefits

Advice to Management

Open feedback loops. Estaff only hears what leadership wants them to hear

Pros

Free food every Wednesdays, but the food is very unhealthy

Advice to Management

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Pros

- Best Management team I have ever worked for, bar none.
- Management goes above and beyond for employees that "want" to succeed. Keyword..."WANT" I noticed a couple "ex-employees" bad mouth the sales team, but the reality is, they are ex-employees for a reason. In the 3 years that I have worked here, I can count on one hand the amount of employees that I have actually left the sales team willingly. As a matter of fact, some that have left have come back to rejoin the team. Majority of the time, sales reps are let go due to lack of performance. I have worked in sales for many different industries/companies and I have never worked for a management team that truly sincerely wants to see all their reps succeed. They give struggling reps many chances to improve themselves before actually resulting to letting them go.
- Open Door. I love how management makes everyone feel that they can voice their opinions even if it's not a good one. Most companies make you feel that you have no voice or say, but here we are able to give our feedback anytime. The process in which we function as a sales team is mostly created from everyone's feedback and opinions. Other companies I have worked for would only pretend to listen but never really took your words into consideration.
- As a sales team, we are constantly being taken care of. Whether its donuts every Thursday or full on lunches every Wednesday, management is always making sure we are happy. We receive all kinds spiffs for outstanding performance, sometimes daily. Most quota driven positions I've held in the past, never gave extra spiffs for exceeding daily/weekly/monthly goals. You either hit your goal or you don't and that's it, but not at 8x8.

At the end of the day, I personally have contemplated on whether I could get a better job or seek higher pay elsewhere. Yes, money is important and we all want it, but for me personally if you want a job that pays well especially if you're an over achiever and you're also seeking for a great work-life balance, 8x8's sales team is the place to be.

Advice to Management

Keep up the Amazing work!

Pros

- Continuous support from upper management
I have been working at 8x8 for 2 years now and not once have I felt left behind. This is largely due to not only management support but upper management constantly helping remove any barriers to success.

- Shaking the market
I have worked for large multi-billing dollar companies and I have never seen such commitment and investment into this technology from a single player. New products and new market approach seems to be 8x8's forte.

- "Flexibility" to control your own growth
Always able to be the driver. The company provides the sales team with everything needed to be successful. We even get leads handed to us, no cold calls ever! Never once did I feel like I didn't know what I was doing or was set-up to fail. I didn't know companies like this existed...

Advice to Management

- Continue supporting sales
The biggest surprise is to see how committed management is to helping sales close. I have had multiple deals that seamed impossible to close end up choosing 8x8 because management intervention.

- Recognition
I have always been recognized for performance and helping others on the floor. Please keep that the culture as it really kept me motivated.

- Sales Sales Sales
Find a way to protect us from tasks non-related to sales

Pros

Pros:

Location by the SJ airport, good for South Bay people. Bonus points if you like dirty, dingy offices that were built in the 80's and not updated.

Advice to Management

-Take off the rose colored glasses and address the internal challenges and dysfunction. Stop talking about $50 stock price, it's delusional.
-Dress, and act, like professional executives.

Pros

A fun environment to work in, lots of learning and growth opportunity.