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Damian Scarfo
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"The snack cart, with Hot food Thursdays and Bagel Friday’s are the best" (in 10 reviews)
"its a great place to work and we need more good people who are" (in 4 reviews)
Cons
"Isn't it funny how the positive reviews come on same day spurts" (in 8 reviews)
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"Great recruitment & on-boarding process"
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Teq full-time (Less than a year)
Pros
1) Phone Screen - pretty standard, past exp, resume, etc
2) Project/Assignment - testing your ability to understand Teq's product
3) Assignment- Demo your project
The recruiter was very fast and efficient. Loved working with them throughout the process.Cons
I'd love a more casual dress code
Teq 2017-11-30 12:33 PSTHelpful (2)
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"Favoritism rules management. The same ruled do not apply to everyone."
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Teq full-time (More than a year)
Pros
A paycheck until anything better comes along.
Cons
Unprofessional management. Racist. Play favorites. Different set of rules and discipline depending on who and what you are.
Advice to Management
Choose management more wisely. Monitor your supervisors.
Teq 2018-11-07 20:16 PSTHelpful (4)
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"Chaotic"
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Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Teq full-time (More than a year)
Pros
reasonable pay, great manager, pretty great team to work with overall
Cons
i was there during a particularly chaotic and stressful period when we were essentially being told every other week that we were going to be fired. as i understand it now, things have settled.
Teq 2018-09-15 09:23 PDTHelpful (2)
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"Great place to learn fundamentals of Sales - structured & fun but not much long term growth."
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RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEOI worked at Teq full-time (More than a year)
Pros
For the most part really enjoyed my time there. I was very successful and made (what seemed) like a lot of money for my first REAL sales job. This is a wonderful place for someone who needs structure and guidance for how to become a successful professional in sales. Metrics are given to help you stay on track to hit quota and they do monthly reviews so that you can see where you need to improve. As someone who came on with some sales experience and some management experience I appreciated what management had to do to organize a successful sales team. They truly do try to provide a positive atmosphere and pleasant place to work by providing daily snack cart that’s pretty much like a 7-11 on wheels. And I always enjoyed the stocked bathroom setup.
If you stay organized and focused it’s not a bad gig and it’s not a hard sale. Teachers need the product and student benefit from the product. You will feel good selling to schools.Cons
The challenges around a sales gig there were not anything to do with sales but more to do with logistics. Because of the nature of the sale, hardware installs needed to be completed and invoiced before anyone could get paid on that order. This was just the policy. This is what frustrated the sales team because sales associates lost out on commission when things post sale where out of their control. Above I wrote that I appreciated what management had to do to organize a sales team but management did not do a lot to HELP CLOSE deals with the sales team. Mentoring and Professional Development was done by the PD team and that’s where I learned most and grew the most in terms of how to connect better with educators and speak their language, not from my Sales Managers.
Teq did go through some major changes and I do believe they were for the best... at the end of the day though the management team is a total boys club and they are all very TIGHT! Don’t expect to on a career path for management role there. So unless you sell more services to new schools you will ultimately hit a ceiling of how much you can make once every school owns a smart board in every classroom. You will have to depend on the state grants to release funds for STEM projects and hope that they cut the check and schedule install to invoice in a quarter that works for your target. It’s just the nature of the beast when you’re working within school budget.Advice to Management
Eliminate the hoops that sales needs to jump through in order to get paid out the big numbers you advertise. Untie sales commission from what the scheduling capacity is. Lastly, unless your customer facing — really no reason for the office to be so dressed up, be flexible and trust your employees just a LITTLE more.
Teq 2018-09-04 14:54 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Worst management of any company I've ever worked for.."
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Disapproves of CEOI worked at Teq (More than 3 years)
Pros
The money isn't bad all things considering...
Cons
The office is a total disaster. Nobody knows what they're doing..
Advice to Management
Clean house. You beat your people to death just so upper management gets thier bonus..
Teq 2018-09-18 17:23 PDTHelpful (4)
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"Sales"
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Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Teq full-time
Pros
A few really good people.
The people ultimately keep you there longer than you would like.
You realize there is a passion that goes into creating the products and the customer base is filled with individuals who share that passion. You will learn a lot in terms of overall sales cycle approaches, keep tabs on your pipeline, learning the value of following up as well as how to conduct a presentation.Cons
Management is highly out of touch. Do not expect to grow here. Bait and switch tactics happen often as they will move you around the office, change the goals and objectives quarter to quarter and do not have a realistic perspective on the obstacles that will prevent you from earning your max potential. A few blow hards exist at the top; would prefer to hear the sound of their own voice than actually lead; which is sad because none of the management team are at their core stupid, however they are consumed with their power and do not like to give the staff any space to outshine them. in short THIS IS A TEMPORARY POSITION; GO IN KNOWING YOU WILL BECOME FRUSTRATED WITHIN A FEW MONTHS; that is unless you like being a robot and have no motivation to rise above corporate brainwashing.
Advice to Management
Keep doing what you are doing. YOU ALL CONTINUE TO GET RICH, while the faces of the company turn over quarter by quarter, month by month and year after year.
Teq 2018-09-10 14:27 PDTHelpful (1)
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"Manager"
StarStarStarStarStarDoesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDisapproves of CEOI worked at Teq full-time (More than 5 years)
Pros
Non at all. So shady.
Cons
Worst place ever to work.
Teq 2018-09-11 16:29 PDT![Teq Logo]()
"Admin"
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Pros
Warm and friendly work environment! Really feel a part of a team to do something great for education.
Cons
No cons here, great place to work.
Teq 2018-07-13 05:04 PDT![Teq Logo]()
"Decent"
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Doesn't RecommendPositive OutlookNo opinion of CEOI worked at Teq full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Good out of college
Cons
Turn over, high pressure, straight sales gig
Teq 2018-05-08 15:36 PDTHelpful (2)
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"TEQ has the potential to be a GREAT place."
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RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEOI have been working at Teq full-time (More than a year)
Pros
People tend to forget to write when they are happy on these anonymous reviews. There are always going to be things to be "unhappy" about wherever you are. I truly feel that TEQ is a good place to work. I enjoy coming to work and doing my job around a great team here.
Cons
There are too many people here with "Titles" (ones that abuse it) How many Executives, Managers, Directors could there be in a fairly small company.
Advice to Management
Let's go casual everyday!!!!!!
Additional SICK PTO days would be great
Get rid of the dead weight managers, we need mentors here not babysittersTeq 2017-12-06 06:02 PST
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