A cautionary tale - Sales Engineer Import.io Employee Review

1.0
Nov 19, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Energetic team. Employees willing to go the extra mile to support eachother.

Cons

Leadership/CEO management is very poor and reactionary, little to no support until the last moment, great at demoralising people for the smallest detail, planning seems to focus on the vision but with little substance to the actual details/pitfalls. Changes on bi-weekly basis with almost no process or workflow behind it to support efforts. "Putting out fires" are the norm, resulting in a lot of burnout A lot of scrutiny without feedback (you learn by getting feedback), this results in employees communicating as little as possible. Expecting top quality from you but with little to no training on many aspects. Overall toxic environment with no room for growth. A tech company that decided to wipe out the whole sales engineering department is a BIG red flag

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5.0
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Cons

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1.0
Nov 22, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Import.io may have been onto something reference web data extraction and integration, but now Nov 2019 people are running for the doors - with good & valid cause.

Cons

Where do we start, Import.io has lost all their seasoned sales people and technical Solutions Engineers we were let go this week, 11.18.19 Approx. 30% of the company has just been RIF'ed and the remaining folks are looking because they appear to be running out of money to support their customer base and grow it. They have no one left to support their Sales Engineering and MDS deliveryTeams . Customers are leaving them for cause. The CEO Gary Read is an Englishman that on the service seems like a decent guy albeit Pompous, but he is purely a marketing guy way over his head as a CEO and It shows. He really needs a wake up call.

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