If you are planning to join the sales team, you will not be set up for success due to the following roadblocks:
- The executive leadership team does not communicate to anyone outside of the management bubble; therefore, it will be tough to understand the company’s trajectory and how to communicate any changes to customers.
- All departments, especially marketing, are siloed to the point that you’ll be challenged to find any internal resources that are up-to-date.
- Decisions are made in a vacuum and not transparent.
- Sales operations is basically nonexistent and commissions calculations aren’t clear nor are they shared with reps prior to depositing.
- Boys club sales culture that is non-inclusive to anyone outside of that circle.
- Sales management is weak and not supportive of the reps. There are also only a few key people at the company (many who have left recently) that have much of the tribal knowledge and are overworked.
- QUIET! If you’re joining new, there isn’t much sales camaraderie and the training materials are lackluster. It’ll be really tough to ramp.
- Sales cycles are long, so unless you have an existing customer account or are on the commercial sales team, you may not close a new land your first year. All expandable customer accounts are held by a select few reps that joined from tibco.
- Although the technology is solid, it is beginning to fall behind key competitors in the space. PM hasn’t been a helpful sales ally either when requesting critical features for customers.