Birst Reviews

Pros

-This is a great place to advance your career in software sales. If you are looking to be part of a world class team and company this is a place to be. - World class training and support so that a future leader in the space has the proper tool to learn and grow

Cons

-There are none that i can think of

Pros

Good people in other teams but overloaded.Nice office ,good snacks.

Cons

Toxic work environment in customer success team. No career growth in this team and neither any one will ever talk to you about it. There is no learning of any sort of technology or product other than looking at the logs and filing bugs which product is full of. People are micro managed so be on a clock.Support team has no benefits at all and looked down upon as compared to other departments. Co ordination among teams in different geographic is not good lot of friction among teams and members along with shortage of resources especially in Head office. Team has been short staffed ever since and as it is a difficult place to stay longer.

Pros

Nothing of substance. They had good snacks I guess. The bathrooms were clean. My peers were nice people for the most part. A few jerks here and there.

Cons

Most everything else. The office was cramped, the founders were cheap, and the product was filled with bugs. It was like living in a NYC slum.

Pros

Not much good to say about it. Most of the people who worked there were solid and dependable. Sales leadership was awful and the founders seemed in over their heads.

Cons

Too many to list. Product wasn't ready for the enterprise yet CEO/found constantly tried to push it. Company would have been better off focusing on an OEM business model. Bigger deals. Lower cost of customer acquisition. Smaller sales team needed. Stickier product.

Pros

Best Marketing Team ever. Accomplished a lot on a small budget. All employees opinions valued.

Cons

Not enough budget given to Marketing

Pros

-learned a lot -paid well -flexible vacation policy -became close with some of my team members

Cons

My team: -extreme micro management -terrible hours- most SDRs work 12 hour days and some brag about working weekends -poor culture: cold, aggressive -extremely difficult to hit quota. They were dishonest about this during the interview process -very poor promotion path. It is almost impossible to get promoted from an SDR to an AE. AEs here are in their 30s-50s, much more tenured, and hired from outside of the company 95% of the time Company as a whole: -essentially zero company perks. No commuter benefits, no gym reimbursement, no catered meals. SDR team got 1 lunch once a week. Perks may seem frivolous, but it really has an impact on the happiness of your employees. Investing in your people is essential, or they will leave -poor sense of community. Birst is very fragmented by their teams. I believe a big part of this is due to the fact that this is not a young company. The only young people here are on the SDR team. If you're looking for a young, fun startup to work at, this is not the place.

Pros

- high caliber talent when I first joined - decent pay - flexible PTO

Cons

- 1:3 manager to SDR ratio - stressful work environment - 10% hit quota - extreme micromanagement - working 12 hour days, it's so stressful, you feel like you're working inside and outside of work to get to 80% of quota

Pros

The pay was good for the industry.

Cons

Management is terrible. I've never seen anything like this. Everyone on my team was depressed and looking for other jobs. The managers would make us cry with mean and rude comments. I would get anxious before every one-on-one. Additionally the C-suite is impersonal and not transparent. Even within my team there were all these secret meetings I wasn't a part of. Most stressful time in my life was working at Birst.