If you’re reading this, I promise you deserve better. If I can turn at least one reader away, the time I took to write this will have been worth it.
The people in charge don’t know what they’re doing and you’ll suffer for it. Go find a company that will help you grow. Don’t buy all of the positive reviews on these sites, managers ask people to write reviews. While they don’t tell you what to say, they know when you write one. From there, they can connect the dots about who wrote what; and that completely suppresses your true opinions. I highly suggest you find former employees on LinkedIn and ask them what they think, you’ll find this review is closer to what they say.
In my experience, managers heavily played favorites instead of truly investing in everyone and in the future of the company. Those that don’t see it this way, were the beneficiaries or unwilling to admit it.
To that point, training for new people left a lot to be desired. A lot of being thrown in to the deep end and being blamed for drowning.
From an overall business strategy standpoint, there didn’t seem to be a great structure for future/strategic decision making and growth. Seemed to be more of a dice rolling, dart throwing, “this would be a fun idea” type strategy but to be fair, I was an observer to this process.
A huge mistake that companies make is treating their employees like they’re never good enough. Multiple times sales people would be projected to do much better than their quota and then management would raise their quota. Sure, you get more out of an employee in the short-term but in the long run you burn them out and make them feel useless.
Believe it or not, I witnessed multiple events of upper management sanctioned hazing of new sales people. Dumping lemonade powder on a sandwich and having them eat it seemed to be the dealer’s favorite card.
A couple more notes:
-Non-sales people were paid below market value and under appreciated
-Cost of living raises are not automatic
-Work hours were archaic (while offices were open)
-Unprofessionalism was way too highly tolerated
P.S. for those that are fresh out of college, unlimited PTO is no PTO. When you find a real company that treats you fairly and like an adult you’ll be better off.
