Grew crazy fast and struggling internally, but customers love it - Anonymous employee Remote Employee Review

3.0
Jul 28, 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

- Everyone is kind and believes in the mission - My manager is supportive and easy to work with - Base comp is competitive - Product is easy to learn - Infrastructure of ownership is a positive and differentiates from competition - Strong suite of sales tools (Gong, Outreach, SFDC, ZoomInfo, Loom)

Cons

- Known pay inequities within the sales org because if you live in a higher cost of labour area, you have a higher quota without justification (no territories, same playing field). One rep could have a $200K-$300K higher quota because they live in the Bay Area and therefore end up making significantly less than a peer who lives in a lower cost of labour area who sold the same. Senior Leadership is aware but not willing to fix it any time soon because it benefits the company's financials - No medical premium support for dependents - premium for dependents was more than 2x the price of private market insurance - Their ramp program for sales is not standard - you must make your ramp quota to get your ramp "guarantee", but sales cycles are 2-6 months so you're set up for failure and can't expect to get the commission draw bonus as promised in interviews - The sales leadership has no clout in the organization, or backbone. Other depts own the sales org so all of the blockers that are shared by the sales team remain unresolved. Other depts will make dumb decisions that seriously impact sales without even telling the sales team first. - Heavy CS role in sales because customers don't get dedicated support until a certain size, so its a hybrid of CS/Sales and for tenured folks like me, its mostly CS work but can be lucrative due to residuals - SDR team is ineffective. They won't let sales write their own email sequences and test. Most prospecting emails are all about Remote vs. focused on common challenges and therefore go against modern sales best practices. SDR call script is terrible and you're lucky to get one meeting every 2 weeks from your SDR. - Async culture is touted as a positive, but it delays everything and customers suffer from broader orgs hesitancy to connect over a live meeting to support pre-sales efforts - Trying to find information internally is a nightmare. You will live in Notion and Slack and often spend hours per day trying to figure out how to do a simple task because there is no focus on internal automation All this being said, I do believe the org is poised for greatness and most of this will be resolved in time. Customers love Remote and employees truly all care about the customers and their employees.

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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. It’s encouraging to hear that you value your manager and colleagues and believe in the mission and product. We’re really proud of the global infrastructure we’ve built, but more importantly, the compliance, cost savings and speed it enables for our customers. Our business has enjoyed the kind of growth which is incredibly rare and while this is obviously positive, it’s also not without challenges. As we’ve discussed, there are a number of areas where we must take our processes, tools and capability to the next level if we’re to achieve our medium to long term aspirations as a company. I agree that working asynchronously can be challenging and it certainly places more importance on documents and written communication as a basis for collaboration. We must continue to evolve our processes and approach to asynchronous work to ensure information is more readily available - in my view, this includes reviewing the type of work we believe is best suited to synchronous versus asynchronous interactions. Regarding quotas, as I’ve mentioned in the past, our approach to quota setting must evolve as we mature as a business. Overhauling quota mechanics is a complex task that requires thoughtful planning and specific expertise - it’s a piece of work that I’ve already flagged to our new VP of Sales Operations. Next year, I anticipate us moving towards an approach which defines your quota in much more sophisticated way based on the opportunity within your specific sales territory. I understand your concerns regarding ramping quotas in the past - this is why all new members of our team are on a redesigned ramp and also why we allowed all sellers on the old structure the opportunity to switch when this was first implemented. I suspect there’s further room for us to optimize the design, but I believe we’ve moved in the right direction. I’m with you that upgrading our processes, workflows, systems and capability will take time - and no doubt there will be challenges - but I’m genuinely happy that these are the problems we have in front of us because: (a) They are largely a reflection of the massive growth we’ve had; and (b) They’re all soluble :) Like you, I also think we’re poised for greatness, though doing great things is rarely easy. Connected to this, I’m really excited to have recently brought in experienced leaders with the deep domain expertise to help us design and implement the enhancements that take go-to-market to the next level. Chris, CRO

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